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I second Paul Constant’s plea.
At the Coop, “fiction” was on the mezzanine/2nd floor with the cafe and the magazines. Sci-fi, fantasy, romance, graphic novels, and mystery were (are, I presume, though I haven’t been by in a few years now) in the basement with the kids’ books, cooking, humor, and other smallish and oddball categories. The system (Heil B&N!) told us books belonged in Sci-fi/Fantasy, but didn’t tell us which.
As I would explain to new folks, you could usually guess by the cover illustration: Robots or outer space? Sci-fi! Dragons or fancy serif lettering? Fantasy! Serifs in outer space? Fuck if I know. Use it to hit the kid in the corner pilfering comic books. And while you’re at it, see if you can convince him to steal a chess book instead. We have too many of them. It’s becoming a problem.
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macjustice reblogged this from ampersandean and added:
convenient appropriation of “good” SF is such bullshit! I agree...opinion that adding SF...
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