Science Fiction Reshelving Day! Yay!
25. Oct, 2009 
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Blue Tyson sent along a note to let me know that November 18th is International Science Fiction Reshelving Day.
Mary, Caroline, Seth and Robert busily 'correcting' the stacks at their local book store. Get yourself a pair of horn rimmed glasses and join the fun!
That’s the day that everyone picks a local bookstore or library and goes about the business of making sure that all genre fiction is located in the proper section of the store.
After all, if science fiction isn’t in the SF section, and fantasy isn’t in the fantasy section and horror isn’t in the horror section, how are we going to find it?
I love this idea!
Here are a few folks who need to be “taken home”:
Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood
Kurt Vonnegut = Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Player Piano
Richard Adams – Watership Down
Maurice Sendak – Where the Wild Things Are
Cormac McCarthy – The Road
George Orwell, Aldous Huxley
depending upon your local sensibilities you may even look for Wells, Verne, Shelly and other 19th century writers who have lost their way
Send in others!
This sounds like a splendid idea! Me, I’d love it if the bookstores would stop putting sci-fi and fantasy in the same category, since they’re entirely different genres.