Category: Accessions

  • 12FEB23 / accessions

    Bonus weekend shift for the accessions department, here. The Giles because it sounds like the most interesting Clarke winner in a long long time, and lots of people whose opinions I value are speaking highly of it. Plus, y’know, sf poetry? Rare it even gets published, let alone wins awards. Gotta be worth a punt.…

  • 31JAN23 / accessions

    Courtesy of the publishers, this one. Good cover; I’m sure the contents will be just as good.

  • 17JAN23 / accessions

    You know how it is: you go to town to buy a webcam (because the one in your Thinkpad has, in some impossible-to-diagnose manner, gone for a burton) and the store with the webcam just happens to be two doors down from the local sf/f bookstore and … ah, well. The Itäranta because, um, I…

  • 02JAN23 / accessions

    The big bad book from Bleecker and the boys… this actually arrived during Dead Week, but whatevs. (And no ISBN, which has given the accessions department conniptions, and will likely present all sorts of challenges when it comes to citing the thing in academic contexts. Ah well.)

  • 12DEC22 / accessions

    A delayed-in-the-mail batch of non-fiction, and presumably the last accessions of the year… perhaps even for a while? I think I need to stage some sort of intervention on myself, this habit’s getting out of hand.