A History of Gibbons by Ronan Empyre
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Author: Ronan Empyre
Publisher: Not known
Source book: The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
Ronan Empyre writes: ‘Commander Bradshaw did much of the booksploring in the early years, before the outlying Rebel Book Catagories were brought within the controlling sphere of the Council of Genres. Inexplicably, novels can only be visited when someone has found a way in - and a way out. Bradshaw’s mapping of the known BookWorld (1927 - 1949) was an extraordinary feat, and until the advent of the ISBN Positioning System (1962), Bradshaw’s maps were the only travel guide to fiction. Not all booksploring ends so happily. Ambrose Bierce was lost trying to access [stories by Edgar Allan] Poe. His name, among with many others, is carved on the Boojumorial, situated in the lobby of the Great Library.’
Unfortunately I can’t tell you what Gibbons has to do with anything other than to help a joke along.
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