A 4-page scanned document by or about Ray Nelson (Radell Faraday Nelson), a science fiction writer and close friend and collaborator of Philip K. Dick. No OCR text layer is present. The title 'A Tale of Two Bookstores' suggests a personal memoir or essay about bookstores significant to the Berkeley science fiction community.
Nelson and Dick co-authored the novel The Ganymede Takeover (1967) and shared a deep involvement in the Berkeley literary and science fiction scene. Nelson is also known for his short story 'Eight O'Clock in the Morning,' which was adapted into the John Carpenter film They Live (1988). A memoir about bookstores by Nelson would provide valuable documentation of the literary environment in which Dick developed as a writer, particularly the role of Berkeley bookstores as gathering places for the local science fiction community.