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I wrote on Boing Boing about author Michael Chabon’s glorious digital re-creation of the Science Fiction section of the bookstore of his 1970s youth.

https://boingboing.net/2023/07/31/author-michael-chabon-recreates-the-science-fiction-section-from-the-bookstore-of-his-youth.html .

Author Michael Chabon recreates the Science Fiction section from the bookstore of his youth | Boing Boing

Acclaimed bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon spent his Covid quarantine lovingly and meticulously creating a digital tribute to / replica of the Science Fiction and Fantas…

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Jul 31, 2023 at 1:34pmWeb
Show threadKeith IveyJul 31, 2023
@rubenbolling Those Lovecraft covers are burned into my memory.
Show threadKeith IveyJul 31, 2023
@rubenbolling I knew I had at least one around here somewhere, though judging from the price tag I must have picked it up used later.
Show threadCharles BryanJul 31, 2023
@rubenbolling So many memories for me, as well. The Asimov Foundation books, the Blish Star Trek series - thank you for sharing this!
Show threadJaime RobertsonJul 31, 2023
@rubenbolling I spent a lot of my pre-teen summers browsing through the SF section of the bookstore my father worked part-time in, during the late 70s-early 80s. A lot of familiar covers there.
Show threadLawrence AllanJul 31, 2023

@rubenbolling I still have that same Star Wars novelization! I don’t know when I picked it up (well after the movie came out).

I sorta miss reading novelizations. I remember reading the one for Raiders of the Lost Ark where it tries to explain the whole traveling on the outside of the sub thing.

Show threadJohn PanzerJul 31, 2023
@rubenbolling This transports me back to my local library’s SF section… where I spent nearly every day some summers of the 1980s.
Show threadCavyherdJul 31, 2023

@rubenbolling

Wow. Amazing overlap with my own library. #YesIAmOld