I dropped by Barnes & Noble today to acquire the first book of the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold.  My buddy Dan has been bugging me for months to read it, and I finally caved in and bought the first book.  Some of her stuff has won the Hugo award, so it has to be better than the sci-fi I've read in the past couple of years.  At the least it should hold me over until A Feast for Crows comes out.

 

Anyway, I was heading to the register when I noticed a section over by the Starbucks that had a sign poking up that said "Games Workshop".  For a while, Barnes & Noble has had a selection of family games for sale at most of their stores in Dallas.  In fact, that's where Christina bought me my copy of Perudo.  But Games Workshop?  In Barnes & Noble?  When I checked out the display, I was shocked.  In addition to some random 40k miniatures, they had copies of some pseudo-Euro games.  There were several "license" games like Warcraft, Civilization and A Game of Thrones.  They had a handful of Fantasy Flight Silver Line games like Citadels, Colossal Arena, Mutiny and Senator.  And sitting at the bottom of the display in all their monolithic glory were two copies of Twilight Imperium, Third Edition.  Wow!  I was disappointed not to find some of the more-accessible Euros like Settlers or Puerto Rico.  There were no Rio Grande games that I remember.  But it was certainly better than their usual display of family and party games.  It's nice to see our little hobby is becoming more and more mainstream.