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Five Books Whose Physics Broke My Head Open

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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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Ten Classic Books I Read as a Teen That Still Hold Up

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Five SF Stories Set in High-Rises, Tower Blocks, and Buildings of Unusual Size

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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 SFF Stories With Interesting Takes on Mass Media

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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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“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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