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Five Oddly, Unexpectedly Upbeat Works of SFF

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Digitally manipulated photo of a UFO appearing above three figures standing on a wide path
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Five Works About Surviving Helpful or Indifferent Aliens

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Artist's conception of a moon colony mining facility.
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Five SF Stories Featuring Unsuccessful Attempts at Space Colonization

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Adventures in Impractical SF: Five Stories Featuring Space Travel Using Constant Acceleration

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Five SF Stories About Space Scouts and Cosmic Exploration

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“The Screwfly Solution” Captures the Violence of Our Current Moment

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Five SFF Stories About Hermits, Recluses, and Loners

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Imagining and Understanding the Alien: Insects in Science Fiction

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Science Fiction

Abandon All Hope: Five Extremely Pessimistic SF Classics

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Artist's conception of light-speed space travel
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Five SF Books Featuring Relativistic Relics and Timey-Wimey Problems

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The James Tiptree, Jr. Award Will Become the Otherwise Award

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QUILTBAG+ Speculative Classics: Up the Walls of the World by James Tiptree, Jr.

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“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

C.S. Lewis, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

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