Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores
Bookstore The word conjures up many images: dusty little holes-in-the-wall piled high with well-read paperbacks, jacketless hardcovers and the promise of possible rare treats; huge superstores with coffee shops and comfy chairs, bookbags, bookmarks and sometimes even books; friendly...
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Bookstore
The word conjures up many images: dusty little holes-in-the-wall piled high with well-read paperbacks, jacketless hardcovers and the promise of possible rare treats; huge superstores with coffee shops and comfy chairs, bookbags, bookmarks and sometimes even books; friendly neighbourhood retreats complete with cat and eccentric owner. Places filled with ideas, built of words and pictures, just waiting to be consumed.
Here we proudly present sixteen stories of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, in which bookstores are the highlight and the focus of the action. For those of you who love books and bookstores, getting you to come in to browse shouldn't be difficult.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781892058096 (189205809X)
Publish date: 2005
Publisher: Dreamhaven Books
Pages no: 285
Edition language: English
A collection of short sf/f/horror stories about bookstores. There is already a glut of tales about magical bookstores with wise old booksellers who always know exactly what book to give each customer, and this collection has a bunch of those sorts of trite tales. But it also has a few interesting ...
DreamHaven is a local, science fiction book store I've been known to frequent, although much less recently since they moved from a location in walking distance to over by the river. I knew Greg Ketter had a small press, but this is the first book I've ever actually read from that press, and I'm pret...