Anodyne
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
 

Bob Brown & Associates, a Seattle-based SF, fantasy and mystery specialist whose shop I had somehow never set foot in until yesterday afternoon. "Deep in the savage heart of Wallingford," and just around the corner from Gasworks Park. Looming silhouettes of pipes and tanking, equal parts Ed Burtynsky and Terry Gilliam, in the foggy December twilight. Echoing rumble of traffic across the bridges framing the park on either side. Snowy clouds of circling pigeons.

Terrific scores at Brown, his next-door neighbor the Seattle Book Center, and Elliott Bay including a signed Fred Beckey hardcover, three Iain Banks UKHC 1sts, M. John Harrison's first novel, The Committed Men, in hardcover, Fredric Brown's Screaming Mimi (filmed by Dario Argento as The Bird With the Crystal Plumage), Jack Vance's long-awaited new SF novel, new Norman Dubie, and, best of all, a F/F hardcover first of noir's Faulkner -- Horace McCoy's -- 1952 "medical thriller," Scalpel -- in spirit way, way closer to The Kingdom than to Robin Cook -- for $15. Posted by Hello
- posted by cjb @ 8:57 AM


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