{"id":3822,"date":"2007-02-20T10:32:45","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T18:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2007\/02\/20\/3822.html"},"modified":"2007-02-20T10:32:45","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T18:32:45","slug":"save-pandemonium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2007\/02\/20\/save-pandemonium\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Pandemonium!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I'm way late on this, but I just heard that Pandemonium Books & Games<\/a>, a science fiction\/fantasy books-and-gaming store in Cambridge, MA, is having financial trouble. They moved recently--from their longtime but kind of cramped home upstairs in The Garage to a new spacious airy well-lit space in Central Square. I stopped by the new store last time I was in Boston; a nice place.<\/p>\n

But it turns out that during the move, they had to close for three months, and although they're doing better now than they were for a while after they reopened, they owe substantial back taxes, which may drive them out of business.<\/p>\n

So they're holding a T-shirt drive<\/a>. The owner says that if 1000 people buy a T-shirt<\/a>, the store can survive. It sounds like in addition to the financial boost, he wants to see tangible evidence that people really do care about the store.<\/p>\n

I'm guessing that most people who care have heard about it by now--the original post about it was almost two weeks ago, and the news has spread all over the place--blogs, BoingBoing, traditional media, etc. I just haven't been paying attention. But I figured it was worth posting just in case anyone else hadn't heard. The last update I saw said that they had sold 542 T-shirts, but that was only 24 hours after the shirts went on sale; I'm guessing the count has gone up since then.<\/p>\n

I like Pandemonium. They carry some small-press stuff--they're the only place I ever saw new genre<\/cite> being sold--and a fair number of science fiction and fantasy books, and a bunch of gaming materials--I've seen gaming books there that I've never seen anywhere else. I gather that some people feel their focus is too much on gaming for a bookstore, but I think of them as a books-and-gaming store, so that doesn't especially bother me. I always try to visit there when I'm in Boston, if I have time.<\/p>\n

So if you're a fan of the store, or even if you just like to support independent specialty sf stores, go buy a shirt<\/a>. Or if T-shirts aren't your thing, you can also donate via PayPal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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