Bookstores all over seem to be closing their physical doors and opening virtual ones. The science-fiction emporium Dangerous Visions in Sherman Oaks has recently gone that route and will henceforth sell only online. The trend is a shame, though I have to admit my contribution to it. I used to go to bookshops incessantly and now I seem to visit them only when I'm near one with time to kill. Otherwise, I do my browsing at Amazon like so many of you.
The last physical event of the Dangerous Visions store is, appropriately enough, a signing by Harlan Ellison of the new, 30th anniversary edition of his landmark s-f anthology, Dangerous Visions. If you'd like to obtain a copy of same, the autographing is at a photography studio next to the old, now-shuttered bookstore on Saturday, November 23. Or you can order one or more copies via the Internet (though only if you do so in advance) at the Dangerous Visions website, which is at www.readsf.com. Henceforth, that's where they'll be doing all their business.
You can also, of course, order this important book at Amazon.Com…and if you do so by clicking on our links here, this site receives a teensy cut of what you spend there. But buy Dangerous Visions from Dangerous Visions, instead. You'll get it autographed that way and, more important, you'll support a worthy business. Art Cover and Lydia Marano are the folks behind the store and they are well-deserving of your bucks.