The Borders War
I want to tell you about a horrible war that happened. It’s a horrible war that took place right in your very home town. It took place in your local bookshop.
Very late one night and the History and Travel sections formed a secret and unholy alliance. Together they suddenly, and without warning, brutally savaged the Fantasy and Science Fiction section. So total was the devastation that the few survives of Science Fiction were sold into slavery to the Thriller section. Fantasy faired a little better by taking refuge in the Romance section but it wasn’t long before they, out of desperation, collectively invaded the Horror section. Terrified of the bloodshed it saw around it the Mystery section, seeking protection, hastily signed an ill conceived and ultimately oppressive treaty with the True Crime and Legal sections.
It’s a brutal and war torn landscape. Nothing is left but the pale shadow of the formerly challenging and thought provoking content. Is there no hope? I say there is. There is a subversive underground brewing. An unlikely underground as all undergrounds are. Watch the Teen and Young Adult sections…. carefully.
Very late one night and the History and Travel sections formed a secret and unholy alliance. Together they suddenly, and without warning, brutally savaged the Fantasy and Science Fiction section. So total was the devastation that the few survives of Science Fiction were sold into slavery to the Thriller section. Fantasy faired a little better by taking refuge in the Romance section but it wasn’t long before they, out of desperation, collectively invaded the Horror section. Terrified of the bloodshed it saw around it the Mystery section, seeking protection, hastily signed an ill conceived and ultimately oppressive treaty with the True Crime and Legal sections.
It’s a brutal and war torn landscape. Nothing is left but the pale shadow of the formerly challenging and thought provoking content. Is there no hope? I say there is. There is a subversive underground brewing. An unlikely underground as all undergrounds are. Watch the Teen and Young Adult sections…. carefully.