Bakka-Phoenix Science Fiction Bookstore is a small independent bookstore in Toronto, Ontario, which specializes in science fiction and fantasy literature. It was started on Toronto's then-bohemian Queen Street West in 1972 as a combined science-fiction and comic book store called Bakka, a name taken by founding owner Charles McKee from a Fremen legend in Frank Herbert's novel Dune; Bakka was "the weeper who mourns for all mankind." The comic-book business split off early on, becoming the Silver Snail, still extant on the opposite side of Queen Street West. Bakka used to have a substantial stock of used, as well as new, books, but when Jack Brooks left the store, the emphasis shifted almost entirely to new material; Brooks now runs his own, entirely used, bookstore, Brooks' Books, in Oakvil