aii@tropix.UUCP (Alice I. Insley) (04/22/84)
Although this might sound strange "The Worlds Largest Bookstore" in Toronto is one of the WORST bookstores to try to find anything except gifts in. They do have a large stock, but it consists mostly of manymanymany copies of whatever is popular at the time. For science fiction and fantasy try Bakka Books (Queens street maybe), they are SURE to have all of Robinsons stuff since they have a pretty comprehensive used section as well as all the new books. The word Bakka comes from Dune and means something like "one who weeps for the world". I'm sure someone out there knows the exact quote. Alice Bentley ....seismo!rochester!ritcv!tropix!aii
martillo@ihuxt.UUCP (martillo) (04/30/84)
Bakka is (I believe -- it is hard to tell in Roman letters) an Arabic word meaning someone who weeps. In Hebrew, it would be Bokheh.