I am begging you on behalf of all the booksellers in the whole wide world, nerds. Please don't do this:

November 18th is International Science Fiction Reshelving Day

Join us this November in a new and unique celebration of science fiction and fantasy literature. Many books from our fine genre are regularly placed in the wrong section of bookstores. This not only hides the books from us, but it prevents readers of those books from discovering the rich tradition to which they belong.

On November 18th that changes. We will go to bookstores around the world and move science fiction and fantasy books from wherever they might be to their proper place in the “Science Fiction” section. We hope that this quiet act of protest will raise awareness of this problem and inspire new readers to explore our thought-provoking genre.

(Apparently, they chose November 18th because it's Margaret Atwood's birthday and Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is considered to be a classic of science fiction that has been hijacked by literary fiction, along with a lot of Kurt Vonnegut's fiction and plenty of Haruki Murakami's novels. You can find their list of such works here.)

Holy shit, this is an asshole move. Nobody cares about your "quiet act of protest," first of all. You're just making more work for bookstore employees and you're making it much harder for paying bookstore customers to actually find the books they're looking for. Second of all, didn't genre geeks used to want their fiction to be folded into "regular" fiction anyway? I think a large fiction section that encompasses everything would be a much healthier fiction section than a literary fiction section with segregated genre books. It makes the genre books look cheap and it keeps the geeks from broadening their reading experience to some—gasp!—non-genre work.

(Via SF Signal.)