Word: fictions
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...Main Library that it's almost possible to overlook its biggest lack--books. Bookshelves seem like an afterthought amid the "centers" and galleries that line the building, so much so that the stacks are omitted entirely from the map distributed at the information desk. The entire general fiction collection, for instance, is contained in one row of bookshelves along a single wall. While the Main claims about a million books, most are hidden away in special compact stacks accessible only to staff members, or in underground storage areas from which titles must be specially requested. Several floors of the building...
While entire collections like fiction are pushed unmarked to the side, the library does highlight certain specialized categories of books in "centers" with their own stacks and reading rooms. Most are devoted to identity groups, a reward for heavy fundraising efforts in minority communities: the African American Center, the Chinese Center, the Filipino American Center, the Gay and Lesbian Center. The library's Rainbow Coalition feel is rounded out by a large international center with foreign-language books, and even an Environmental Center with books about conservation. The San Francisco Public Library may be the first in the country...
With their sharp black suits and their surgically implanted silicon chips, the cyberpunk hard guys of '80s science fiction (including the characters in my early novels and short stories) already have a certain nostalgic romance about them. These information highwaymen were so heroically attuned to the new technology that they laid themselves open to its very cutting edge. They became it; they took it within themselves...
...hindsight, the most memorable images of science fiction often have more to do with our anxieties in the past (that is to say, the writer's present) than with those singular and ongoing scenarios that make up our life as a species--our real future, our ongoing present...
...idea of why these women would want to sleep with him. When he drops that "duty to satisfy the booty" line out of the blue, it's incongruous. Frankly, Samuel Jackson was a lot more cool - and more like the original Shaft - in Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction...