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Ashni: The anthro 121 reading list with all the shorter articles is pretty long, and the class has movie screenings as well. There's a number of nonfiction books, including Adam Roberts' Science Fiction: A New Critical Idiom; and Camille Bacom-Smith's Science Fiction Culture, wherein our hosts are interviewed. The fiction is Childhood's End, The Left Hand of Darkness, Wild Seed, The Forever War, War of the Worlds, and I, Robot; plus some short stories. The course homepage is at http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~anth121/, and I think they have a syllabus up.

>Is pandemonium books doing badly?
Given that they're a specialty store, as of last weekend, they looked good. They recently had a large signing event that sold out (of the book I was looking for, actually), and they're selling the books for the largest class in the Harvard anthropology department, "Anthro 121: Humans, Aliens, and Future Home Worlds: An Anthropologist Looks at Science Fiction."

Also healthy as of last weekend, walking from Harvard Square to Central: WordsWorth (discount new); The Coop (new and textbooks); The Harvard Bookstore (new and used); another used bookstore I can never remember the name of; and Rodney's Used Books. And I can name at least six more specialty shops in the Square alone. We have lost a couple shops in the past few years, and I heard that the Grolier poetry shop is in trouble, which is a shame. But Boston unable to support bookshops? Nope.

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