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I think I may go into shock. Perth now has... another science fiction bookstore! *dun dun DU-U-UHN*

I thought I'd swing by Supanova to see if they had the book of essays about Firefly (since it'd only be available through importing stores). Just one slight detail - Supanova turned out not to be there anymore! Instead, a note saying under new management, and moving to Shafto Lane to re-open in August. Handy for me, since I think it will literally be right over the comic shop (also part of the Shafto Lane body corporate). Sure, it won't get quite as much walk-by traffic, but the old location was on William Street, CBD - busy street with the new train station being built directly across the road... nobody can stop to windowshop without being swept away, or pushed into traffic. Plus the store was by now too small.

So, I continued on my merry way up William Street, which is seeing a large amount of temporary-store-turnover in the block opposite where the new station is being built (that's a rant for another time). And what do I see after seeing where a science fiction bookstore no longer was but... a new science fiction bookstore! "Tim's White Dwarf somethingorother somethingorother" I think, in an old hairdresser or tattoo parlor - shows how much notice I took then. I had a quick look around, just to see what was there - including a dalek in the corner. I didn't buy anything today (sometimes I wish I didn't already *have* Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality books, just to buy them again for the first time), but it's good to know we've got another one around.

And I think my back's finally forgiven me - today I got tired of looking at all the spare shelves lying around in the open, so squeezed them into the space behind the last bay (bend, lift, bend through other shelves, repeat, kick along boxes of endpieces that's too heavy to lift - ow). So now I'd gotten that little space back, and can put the other study carrel back there - my private little spot for morning tea and lunch, away from people researching. :) Yes, I'm misanthropic, and like to have my food alone, only to have found too often recently that the carrels are taken. Next week - shelf signs.