Greenpointers embark on heroic mission to rescue pulpy sci-fi novels
21.05.12
It is the year 2012 — and pulpy science fiction is vanishing from the galaxy. Can these earthlings from Brooklyn stop the tides of fate and rescue scores of forgotten paperbacks?
Greenpoint couple Ash Kalb and Cici James are on a mission to save the science fiction of the 1960s and ’70s by scanning the books and putting them online page by page.
“This isn’t just about great books,” said Kalb, a tech lawyer who founded the project, Singularity & Co . with his actress fiancée. “Nobody in the future will know if they’re any good or bad unless we scan them.”
The lovebirds acquired 2,000 weird tomes and plan to open a Sci-Fi print bookstore in DUMBO this spring — a space that will double as an office for their day jobs.
Their first selection is Terence Haile’s 1962 novel “Space Train,” a hilariously campy read about giant space crabs, suggested by renowned author Neil Gaiman himself.
Source: BrooklynPapers.com