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Five Books Whose Physics Broke My Head Open

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This artist's concept shows a black hole with an accretion disk -- a flat structure of material orbiting the black hole -- and a jet of hot gas, called plasma.
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Five Books Whose Physics Broke My Head Open

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Five SF Works About Mind-Altering Drugs

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Five Surprisingly Devoted SFF Couples

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Five Authors Who Wrote Sequels to Someone Else’s Work

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Five Classic SFF Collections That Are Too Good to Be Forgotten

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Five Vintage SFF Novels That Are Too Good to Be Forgotten

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Five SF Stories About Strangers Bearing Gifts

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Five Fictional Planets Plagued by Extreme Climate Shifts

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“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand Of Darkness

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