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Detail from the cover of Philip Wylie's The End of the World (Art by Ron Walotsky)
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Five SF Books Set in the Future… of 2020

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Detail from a fresco by Joseph Anton Koch depicting Dante's Inferno: close-up of three demons and a hellhound
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Five SFF Stories About Hell and Damnation

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Five SFF Books About Idealistic Pursuits That Failed

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Five Books That Imagine the Future of Canada

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Five SF Works That Predicted a Very Different End to the Cold War

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Five Vintage SF Stories From the Asteroid Belt

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Would-Be Utopias: Five Books Featuring Arcologies and Domed Cities

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Five Books That Get Kinetic Weapons Very Wrong

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Artist's conception of a Martian habitat
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Five Ways to Sell People on the Thankless Task of Planetary Colonization

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An artist's conception of Project ORION; from NASA
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Five Books Featuring Space Travel Powered by Atomic Bombs

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Alien Abduction Meets Military History and Adventure: Janissaries by Jerry Pournelle

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Canadians in SF as Written by Non-Canadians

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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

William Gibson, Neuromancer

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