On 1/3/25 5:36 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <vl9mo7$3fsk$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

“SFBC shutting down”
https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1hsnqmd/sfbc_shutting_down/ >>>
“Reported in Ansible 450.”
https://news.ansible.uk/a450.html#14

"The "How it works" page now says this:"
https://www.sfbc.com/how-it-works

"How Your Membership Works<br>Cancel anytime."

"After 2/1/2025, orders will no longer be processed at Science Fiction
Book Club."

"You can still redeem your existing credits on the site as normal until
2/1/2025."

"You can also still purchase books using a credit card on the site as
normal until 2/1/2025."

I am surprised SFBC lasted this long. I have not ordered a book from it >>> since the early 1970s. I think that “Dune” was the last book I bought >>>from it.

Lynn

I can still tell you what my membership number was for many years, until
they sold I guess. (I won't, but I can). In the post-Amazon years,
I would pretty much buy only the omnibi or art/comic offerings, but
still many fond memories.

Same here. When I first started reading this group in the mid-1990s, i >quickly learned that I'd had a non-standard intro to written SF, and
that I had missed a lot of the common classics most others had read.

SFBC was my primary way of "catching up", including their awesome >introductory deal at the time. I also greatly appreciated Andrew
Wheeler's contributions and insights here in rasfw over the many years
he was here.

I haven't been a member for years, but I'm sad to see it go,
Tony