Selling Speculative Fiction

Host Oliver Brackenbury explores the world of sci-fi/ fantasy bookshops with Chris Szego, former manager of Bakka Phoenix Books, the oldest extant science fiction bookstore in North America.

 

Links to some of the things mentioned in this episode:

• Bakka-Phoenex Bookstore

• The story of the LOTR Paperback Copyright Controversy

• “This Body's Not Big Enough for the Both of Us” & “Meddling Kids” by Edgar Cantero

• “The Lies of Locke Lamora” by Scott Lynch

• “Fly By Night” by Francis Hardinge

• Lois McMaster Bujold

• “The Quantum Magician” by Derek Künsken