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Book ordering service, and sometime bookshop, run by [[Justin Ackroyd]]. | Book ordering service, and sometime bookshop, run by [[Justin Ackroyd]]. | ||
| − | It started in | + | It started in 1988 as a mail order service for science fiction, fantasy, and horror books. |
It opened an [[SF bookshop]] upstairs, with access via another shop on Swanston Street, in 1993. This moved downstairs, to a street front location, in 1997. The bookshop closed in 2002. (The October 2002 issue of ''[[eFNAC]]'' supplies an exact date: 22 October 2002.) | It opened an [[SF bookshop]] upstairs, with access via another shop on Swanston Street, in 1993. This moved downstairs, to a street front location, in 1997. The bookshop closed in 2002. (The October 2002 issue of ''[[eFNAC]]'' supplies an exact date: 22 October 2002.) | ||
Slow Glass Books has continued as a book ordering service for science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mystery. It has also continued to sell books at [[conventions]]. | Slow Glass Books has continued as a book ordering service for science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mystery. It has also continued to sell books at [[conventions]]. | ||
Revision as of 03:26, 31 December 2019
Book ordering service, and sometime bookshop, run by Justin Ackroyd. It started in 1988 as a mail order service for science fiction, fantasy, and horror books. It opened an SF bookshop upstairs, with access via another shop on Swanston Street, in 1993. This moved downstairs, to a street front location, in 1997. The bookshop closed in 2002. (The October 2002 issue of eFNAC supplies an exact date: 22 October 2002.) Slow Glass Books has continued as a book ordering service for science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mystery. It has also continued to sell books at conventions.
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| This is an SF bookstore page. When a floreat "fl." is listed it records the dates for which we have evidence and may not be the store's entire span. |
