the parameters:
* i have 136 linear feet of bookshelves lining the walls of my
basement. they are full. I could conceivably move to free-standing
library shelves, but that might be too much for my long-suffering
wife.
* I have 27 feet devoted to SF. I may be able to free up some more
room for SF by paring down other sections, but I do have lots of
interests and sf is only one. assume no more than a 10% increase.
* I shelve fantasy in a separate section and have about 10 linear
feet devoted to it. "I know it when I see it."
* I file some nonfiction books by sf authors together with SF, e.g.
David Brin's Transparent Society, so all the books by a single author
are clumped together.
* my current collection is simply the ad hoc result of all the books
that have survived years of moves. until now, there has been no
collection strategy.
* I was introduced to science fiction by browsing in my grandfather's
complete run of ANALOG 1955-1975 (now, alas, lost).
* I like space opera.
these are the SF books I currently have beginning with "B".
What should I keep? What do I have to have?
Banks, Iain Excession
Banks, Iain Against a Dark Background
Banks, Iain M. LOOK To WINDWARD.
Banks, Iain M. The State of the Art
Banks, Iain M. Matter
Bear, Greg Moving Mars
Benford, Gregory Foundation's Fear (Foundation Trilogy)
Benford, Gregory Foundation's Fear (Second Foundation Trilogy)
Benford, Gregory Deep Time
Brin, David Kiln People (The Kiln Books)
Brin, David The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to
Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?
Brin, David Foundation's Triumph (Second Foundation Trilogy)
Brin, David Brightness Reef (Bantam Spectra Book)
Brotherton, Mike Spider Star
Bujold, Lois McMaster A Civil Campaign: A Comedy of Biology and
Manners
Bujold, Lois McMaster Memory, A Miles Vorkosigan Adventure
Burroughs, Edgar Rice The Land That Time Forgot (Commemorative
Edition)
Burroughs, Edgar Rice Beyond Thirty (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)
(for editions, see my librarything profile at
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/wfzimmerman).
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