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O Beloved Local Scifi Bookstore

Every town has one. It's the local scifi or comic book store that's much more than a place to buy books. It's a meeting spot, a salon, and a cruising joint for people who want to hang out and talk scifi with other bookish types. The store proprietors should be legendary — Crabby Heinlein Guy is really mean and elitist, but Goth Girl is super nice and will always recommend good books even if you don't know Star Wars from The Star Fraction. Every week, we're going to feature one beloved local scifi or comic book store here on io9. We begin the love this week with a natty bookstore in San Francisco called Borderlands, which is full of unusual books and home to one hairless cat named Ripley. More »

4:00 PM on Wed Jan 9 2008
By Annalee Newitz
1,949 views, 50 comments

Latest by n/a: We love this place. Ripley has a cousin that visits once in a while, so it seems like they are replicating. Then, the next time you go, there is only one cat. We had a "conversation" (not a reading!) with more »