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Discoveries, news, and entertainment chosen capriciously by rare book dealer Rebecca Romney
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Projections, an anthology of speculative fiction short stories I edited on the theme of predicting what life would be like in 2020, was released today at Hingston & Olson!
I thought this a challenging theme from the beginning because, as I say in my introduction, I don't think it's a science-fiction writer's job to predict the future. But did anyone predict 2020 correctly? If this year has proven one thing, it's that we cannot see into the future. I chose the stories for this anthology in January, in all my innocence as to what was coming. With the publisher's encouragement, I did add a story about social isolation in March. But even since then, so much has changed. And it seems I managed at least one prediction myself: Octavia Butler hit the NYT Bestseller List for the first time just a few weeks ago, for Parable of the Sower (first published in 1993); Projections includes an excerpt from that book's sequel, Parable of the Talents.
It's a limited edition of only 1400 copies, plus 100 signed copies. Get full details and purchase here.
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An Online Exhibit Full Of Eye Candy
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The KU Leuven Libraries has created a gorgeous online exhibition of book edges across the history of the book in the West. It's informative, easy to navigate, and full of delicious images. Take a look.
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Bringing Overlooked Histories To Your IG Feed
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Nicole Froio featured the "archival Instagram accounts [that] are teaching forgotten histories" on ZORA. I especially appreciated the quote from Dorothy Berry: "Seeing people who look like you, your family, your imagined past — it helps people to remember that they have as long and valued a lineage as the White, propertied, male faces who have long been at the center of institutional archives."
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