About Us: Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore opened for business on March 2, 1974. Uncle Edgar's Mystery Bookstore opened for business in a nearby location on December 1, 1980. Both stores moved to our current shared location in September, 1984. Customers from all over the world tell us that we have the best selection of new and used science fiction, fantasy, and mystery books anywhere on the planet. We are located 1.5 miles south of downtown Minneapolis, MN, near the intersections of Lake Street and Chicago. Map

Discount Card: We offer a discount card for $4.00 for a set 3-month period that gives a 10% discount on in-store purchases, but it does not apply to mail orders. The discount card periods are November 1 to January 31, February 1 to April 30, May 1 to July 31, and August 1 to October 31. (Our computer system is not sophisticated enough to handle a discount card that runs for 3 months from the date of purchase, so we have to use a system where everybody's cards expire on the same date.)

Mailing List: We do not sell our mailing list to anybody. In the past we have used it for mailing our quarterly newsletter. In the future, we hope to be able to send out occasional short announcements of interest to either mystery readers or science fiction readers--such as an author appearance that we received such short notice that it didn't get into the newsletter. (We once got 24-hour notice of a signing by David Brin, and we've sometimes received 2-week notices of other author appearances.) Click here for more details.

Used Books: We buy and sell used books. Most of our used books are reading copies (cheap) rather than rare collectibles (expensive). About 99% of our used paperbacks are priced at half the original cover price, with a $2.00 minimum per book. The other 1% are in plastic bags and priced higher. Used hardcovers have prices penciled inside, starting at the $2.00 minimum for very common bookclub or ex-library editions, and going up from there.
When we buy used books, we first check title by title to see if we already have too many copies. After we've determined which books we need, we calculate how much credit they are worth. You can then use the credit immediately, store the credit for future use, convert the credit to cash (but the cash value is 1/2 the credit value), or some combination of the three options. For example, if we tell you that your books are worth $100 in credit, you could used $25 immediately, store $35 in credit for future use, and convert the remaining $40 credit into $20 cash.

Want List: We are willing to accept want lists, either by mail or e-mail, and we'll let you know what we can provide and what the prices would be. We're not likely to have signed first editions by authors who died decades ago, or British first editions from a century ago, but we do have a huge selection of reading copies.