Brisbane geek shopping
I’m in Brisbane for a day for work and thought I’d take a break this afternoon and check out a couple of geek-related shops: Ace Comics & Games and Pulp Fiction. This is the first of my travel related shop reviews – I’ll do them as I go to visit places but please note that they’re just impressions from (usually) a single visit.
Ace Comics & Games
This is the main gaming shop in Brisbane from what my thread on RPG.net told me. It’s up some stairs and not hugely well sign posted (the signs run out after the first floor). It’s probably 2/3rds comics with lots of trade paperbacks of all sorts. There’s a little bit of minis gaming, some anime DVDs, a few cards and a couple of shelves worth of RPGs and all the major systems are covered. Basically it covers most of the things that people would want without having much in the way of really interesting or odd stuff. An interesting looking second hand shelf turned out to e almost entirely made up of reject d20 glut products although there was some old Dragon mags and even a copy of Pyramid from when it was print. I didn’t see any RPG stuff that I couldn’t get elsewhere pretty easily but did pick up a copy of DMZ vol. 5 which seemed really cheap. The staff were nice and obviously gamers – the whole time I was there, the guy behind the counter was talking about his D&D campaign. Overall, if I lived in Brisbane it would be were I went, but it’s nothing exceptional games wise if you have a decent shop at home.
Pulp Fiction
This is a sci-fi/fantasy/crime bookshop and it’s a goodie. I found it by accident on my one previous trip to Brisbane and got some helpful and friendly advice which lead me to read the wonderful Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold. So I was excited to get back there and it was as good as I rememebred. Basically it’s a small shop in an arcade stuffed to the gunnels with good genre books. I finally found a copy of Felix Gilman’s Thunderer which has been on my to-read list for a few months and saw lots of other stuff I’d like to buy. one of the things I like about Pulp Fiction is that it’s well-ordered, light, open and inviting. It looks like a professionally run place and there’s no stereotypical geekiness about it. I like that and I suspect Pulp Fiction will be a regular stop for me when I make it up here.
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