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Collection of covers for 13 books to read when you need an escape
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Out of This World: Books to Read When You Need an Escape

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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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Science Fiction

Five SF Books Set in the Future… of 2020

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Photograph of an open book with several daisies resting along the spine.
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ecological fiction

10 Works of Eco-Fiction Worth Celebrating

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Collage of 5 books by Octavis Butler: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago, Bloodchild, and Fledgling
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Octavia Butler

Octavia Butler, Audre Lorde, and the Power of Pleasure

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Book covers of ten classic SFF titles
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nostalgia

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

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The Changeling, trailer, LaKeith Stanfield holding an infant
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Black SFF

Dear Hollywood, Where Are the SFF Book-to-Movie/TV Adaptations From Black Writers?

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map of the United States with several pins placed at various cities
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Five Books

5 SFF Books Set in the American South

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Space Opera

11 Books That Changed How I Think About Space Opera

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Non-Fiction

Ten Great Works of Non-Fiction About Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Artist's concept illustration for a space habitat design known as the O'Neill cylinder
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Five Books

Five SFF Books About Radical Community

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FX Cancels Kindred After Just One Season

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Deals With the Devil: Five Stories About Bargaining With the Supernatural

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“You want stories?" Thom Merrilin declaimed. "I have stories, and I will give them to you. I will make them come alive before your eyes.”

Robert Jordan, The Eye Of The World

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