A judge slapped a temporary hold on an Arkansas law that would criminalize librarians and bookstore owners for giving kids access to The Bluest Eye or something.
Is your library genrefied?? But yeah it may just be an oversight on whoever orders books because they aren’t familiar with the genre, and people who want to read scifi probably aren’t requesting. I have to watch for that on biographies when I’m ordering because I don’t personally read them, so I’m not as focused on buying new ones. For us, the most popular scifi books are also dystopian, but the hard scifi doesn’t get any circulation.
Andy Weir is doing great things for the genre right now, which I think will help in the future! He writes in a very accessible, conversational, fun way that is engaging the general population with scifi. People who saw The Martian are reading Project Hail Mary and loving it! I’m excited to see what happens next!
Edit: I realized you may be talking about book store shelves instead. 🤦♀️
No - there’s an inter library loan system so you can order a book and have it show up a bit later for you to check out. But kind of hard to do that if I don’t know what I want to read.
Is your library genrefied?? But yeah it may just be an oversight on whoever orders books because they aren’t familiar with the genre, and people who want to read scifi probably aren’t requesting. I have to watch for that on biographies when I’m ordering because I don’t personally read them, so I’m not as focused on buying new ones. For us, the most popular scifi books are also dystopian, but the hard scifi doesn’t get any circulation.
Andy Weir is doing great things for the genre right now, which I think will help in the future! He writes in a very accessible, conversational, fun way that is engaging the general population with scifi. People who saw The Martian are reading Project Hail Mary and loving it! I’m excited to see what happens next!
Edit: I realized you may be talking about book store shelves instead. 🤦♀️
No - there’s an inter library loan system so you can order a book and have it show up a bit later for you to check out. But kind of hard to do that if I don’t know what I want to read.