I was in Barnes & Noble the other day and thought I’d look at the N.K. Jemisin books. So I went to the sci fi section and saw the half dozen or so titles by Octavia Butler and then I followed the alphabet to find ONE book by N.K. Jemisin.
Now, I admit that I had not heard of her before reading her introduction to Sower, but then I’m not a huge sci-fi reader.
But given her accolades
Four Hugos and one Nebula not to mention what I think Jeff pointed out about being the first author in the Hugos’ 65-year history to win back-to-back awards for every book in a trilogy.
How can they only have had one of her books on the shelf? I realize that space is limited and people don’t buy books anymore and blah blah blah, but is something more going on here?
Infinite Zombies 
Huh, that’s weird indeed. Do you recall which book? Her latest — The City We Became — is fairly recent, and I wonder if they had that one or if they had one of her older ones.
In other Jemisin news, I was excited to see recently that she has a course on a platform called Masterclass. Someone gave me a freebie subscription, and I’ve poked around a little. I suspect it doesn’t offer quite the sort of mastery of a subject matter as its name suggests; still, it’s been neat to see some people whose work I like pop up as instructors. Surely in a few hours of lectures, I can pick up something interesting.
It was actually her short story collection.
Huh, that’s weird indeed. I sure don’t think of short story collections as the books a store with limited shelf space would have on hand.
I’m just shocked that you have a Barnes & Noble to go into.
But I bet if you had a group of people who were all interested in buying Jemisin books from that store and let its management know (pro-tip: see if there’s a bookseller who particularly handles ordering), they’d see a reason to start stocking them.
There’s one about 20 minutes from mu house and another one about 5 minutes from my work. They certainly have fewer books than they used to, but there’s still quite a large amount, which does my heart good (even if I don’t buy much anymore).