Ajax Penumbra 1969 on Dune: “Midway through, a fuzzy-chinned young man approaches the desk with a battered copy of Dune and a motley handful of coins.”
Ajax Penumbra 1969 on Stand on Zanzibar: “Claude wanders through the store, pausing to peruse the table marked SCIENCE FICTION. He finds a book there and brings it to the desk. Stand on Zanzibar.”
Ajax Penumbra 1969 on Through the Looking-Glass: “The note: “To my darling boy, on the occasion of Lewis Carroll’s 93rd birthday.” Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.”
Ajax Penumbra 1969 on Naked Came the Stranger: “The woman with the portable radio is hoisting a book up above the crowd, jabbing a finger at its cover: Naked Came the Stranger.”
Ajax Penumbra 1969 on The Drowned World: “Felix presents his now preposterously tattered copy of Dune and asks if he can trade it in for The Drowned World.”