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Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore Uncle Edgar's Mystery Bookstore 2864 Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55407 Newsletter Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore Uncle Edgar's Mystery Bookstore 2864 Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55407 Newsletter #97 March - May 2012 Hours: M-F 10 am to 8 pm Sat. 10 am to 6 pm Sun. Noon to 5 pm Uncle Hugo's 612-824-6347 Uncle Edgar's 612-824-9984 Fax 612-827-6394 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.UncleHugo.com Sales The 38th Anniversary Sale runs Friday, March 2, through Sunday, March 11, giving you two weekends to take advantage of the sale. Uncle Hugo's is the oldest surviving science fiction bookstore in the United States. We opened for business on March 2, 1974. To encourage you to help us celebrate Uncle Hugo's 38th Anniversary, we're having a sale. Come into either Uncle Hugo's or Uncle Edgar's and get 10% off everything except gift certificates. A discount card will save you even more - you'll get both the 10% savings from the sale and the 10% savings from the discount card. (Sale prices apply to in-store sales, but not to mail orders.) Author Events (at Uncle Hugo's) Sunday, March 11, 1-2pm: William Alexander - Goblin Secrets (a fantasy novel for kids) Holiday Schedule Sunday, April 8: Closed Monday, May 28: Closed Award News The World Fantasy Award for best novel went to Who Fears Death? by Nnedi Okorafor ($15.00). The William L. Crawford Fantasy Award for best first fantasy novel went to Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti by Genevieve Valentine ($14.95). The finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award (for best sf published as a paperback original in the U.S.) are The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett ($13.99), Deadline by Mina Grant ($9.99), The Other by Matthew Hughes ($14.95), A Soldier's Duty by Jean Johnson ($7.99), The Postmortal by Drew Magary ($15.00), After the Apocalypse by Maureen F. McHugh ($16.00), and the Samuel Petrovich Trilogy by Simon Morden (Equations of Life ($7.99), Theories of Flight ($7.99), and Degrees of Freedom ($7.99)). The Mystery Writers of America have announced the nominees for the Edgar Allan Poe Awards. The winners will be announced April 26. The nominees for Best Novel are The Ranger by Ace Atkins ($25.95, $15.00 trade pb due early May), Gone by Mo Hayder ($14.00 trade pb), The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino ($24.99, $14.99 trade pb due early March), 1222 by Anne Holt ($25.00), and Field Gray by Philip Kerr ($26.95, $16.00 trade pb due early March). The nominees for Best First Novel by an American Author are Red on Red by Edward Conlon ($26.00, $15.00 trade pb due late March), Last to Fold by David Duffy ($25.99), All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen ($29.00), Bent Road by Lori Roy ($15.00 trade pb due early March), and Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder ($23.99, $14.99 trade pb due early May). The nominees for Best Paperback Original are The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett ($13.99), The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle ($14.95), The Dog Sox by Russell Hill, Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley ($14.99), and Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis ($15.00) The nominees for the Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award (presented at the same ceremony as the Edgars, for the novel in style of Mary Higgins Clark) are Now You See Me by S. J. Bolton ($25.99, $14.99 trade pb due mid-April), Come and Find Me by Hallie Ephron ($24.99, $13.99 trade pb due early March), Death on Tour by Janice Hamrick ($24.99, $7.99 pb mid May), Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry ($15.00), and Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely ($24.99). The nominees for the Dilys Award, given by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association to the mystery title they have most enjoyed selling, are When Elves Attack by Tim Dorsey ($16.99), Wicked Autumn by G. M. Malliet ($23.99), Tag Man by Archer Mayor ($25.99 signed), A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny ($25.99), and Ghost Hero by S. J. Rozan ($25.99). The nominees for the Lefty Award, for the most humorous mystery, are The Real Macaw by Donna Andrews ($24.99, $7.99 pb mid May), Getting Old Can Kill You by Rita Lakin ($7.99), October Fest by Jess Lourey ($14.95), Magical Alienation by Kris Neri ($15.95), Dying for a Dance by Cindy Sample ($16.95), and The Albuquerque Turkey by John Vorhaus ($23.00). The nominees for the Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award are Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen ($24.95), A Game of Lies by Rebecca Cantrell ($24.99, $14.99 trade pb early May), Mercury's Rise by Ann Parker ($24.95 hc or $14.95 trade pb), A Killing Season by Priscilla Royal ($24.95 hc or $14.95 trade pb), Troubled Bones by Jeri Westerson ($25.99), and A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear ($25.99, $14.99 trade pb due early March). The nominees for the Golden Nugget Award (best mystery novel set in California) are Disturbance by Jan Burke ($25.00), The Drop by Michael Connelly ($27.99 signed), Bit Player by Janet Dawson ($14.95), V Is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton ($27.95), and City of Secrets by Kelli Stanley ($24.99). The nominees for the Eureka! Award (best first mystery novel) are The Baffled Beatlemaniac Caper by Sally Carpenter ($14.95), Nazareth Child by Darrell James ($14.95), Dead Man's Switch by Tammy Kaehler ($14.95), and Who Do, Voodoo? by Rochelle Staab ($7.99). The Minnesota Book Award finalists in the Genre Fiction category are Big Wheat by Richard A. Thompson ($24.95 hc or $14.95 trade pb), The Bone House by Brian Freeman ($24.99), Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley ($14.99), and Northwest Angle by William Kent Kruger ($24.99). How's Business by Don Blyly We had a very good December, partly due to the lack of blizzard, ice storms, snow drifts, etc., that we had to endure the year before. But it was a very good December even compared to a normal year. January and February continued to be good compared to last year, but were nothing to brag about compared to an average year. Heating costs being down about 1/3 from last year helped. Monday, January 9, I was in the store early when I heard somebody walking around on my roof around 8:30 a.m. I went out to see what was going on, and saw the dentist from next door on my roof. I asked him what he was doing on my roof, and he said 'Photographing the evidence–come on up and take a look.' Overnight somebody had gotten onto the roof and cut out the cooling coils from his two rooftop heating/air conditioning units and my two rooftop units. His units had been cut up in such a way that his heat also was not working, but both of my units were still putting out heat. When the repair guy showed up, he said that there's been a lot of this going on all over the metro area. When I called my insurance company, I was told that this has been going on all over the country. The police say that 10 properties in the immediate area have been hit with the same problem. The police have some not-very- good security camera photos of a suspect and have been trying to identify the guy, but no luck yet. The dentist's insurance company replaced his 17-year-old units with new units at no cost to him. My insurance company will be repairing my 2 units (one of which was only 4 months old when it was damaged) with $1000 coming out of my pocket, and they sent a letter that if I have another claim within a year they will probably refuse to insure me again. On the morning of January 25 I received a call from the management of the apartment complex for the elderly where my mother had lived for the last 14 years, telling me that my mother had just been found to have died overnight. I was told that the police would have to come and look over the scene to see if there was anything suspicious, and when the police were done management would call the funeral home–so I should wait until the afternoon to come over. My mother had shown me where she kept her cash in the apartment and told me to come over immediately when she died before things started disappearing. When I got to the apartment about an hour and a half after the phone call, her cash, her keys, and her credit card were all missing, but mountains of other stuff had not disappeared. At work, I often feel like a horde of ducks are trying to nibble me to death, and now the horde of ducks has received massive re-inforcements. I've been very busy dealing with the funeral home, family, the social security administration, her credit card company, bank accounts, etc., and especially with sorting through all her stuff and trying to clear her apartment. I can feel myself falling farther and farther behind on things that should be done at the store. Last issue I mentioned one publisher that wanted to start charging an extra $8.00 for signed copies of some new hardcovers.
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