I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land

by Connie Willis
Category: "Fiction - S. F./Fantasy"
Pages:86
Year of Publication:2017
Date Added:01/06/2021
Date Read:07/11/2021
Notes:A man who doesn't mind that things disappear (because society will keep them if they have value) takes refuge from a storm in an old bookstore. He follows a woman into a giant basement filled with books he's never heard of. She gives him a tour, explaining how all the books got there. He leaves, but when he wants to go back, he can't find the place. He realizes it wasn't a store but a morgue for books that have disappeared.
My Rating: 4

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Hard to believe a story about books could be this boring. Willis didn't make the bookstore sound at all interesting, nor did she make a compelling argument that all books deserve to survive.
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