Forbidden Planet (bookstore)
Forbidden Planet is the trading name of two separate science fiction, fantasy and horror bookshop chains across the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States of America, named after the 1956 feature film of the same name.
As well as books the shops sell comic books, graphic novels, manga, DVDs, video games, and a wide variety of toys, clothing and other collectible merchandise.
Read more about Forbidden Planet (bookstore): History, In Popular Culture
Famous quotes containing the words forbidden and/or planet:
“I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in the search for the pleasures that are permitted.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet’s year is completed, it will be found to be central.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)