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Five SFF Works About Unlikely Global Superpowers
Improbable, but not impossible, ascents to the world stage...
Five SFF Works About Unlikely Global Superpowers
Improbable, but not impossible, ascents to the world stage...
Five SFF Works About Unlikely Global Superpowers
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Five Books Featuring World-Changing Visionaries
Characters hell-bent on reshaping the world, for better or worse...
Five Books Featuring World-Changing Visionaries
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Sweet Revenge: Five Works Featuring Vendettas
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Five Unconventional SFF Road Trips
You bring the snacks, we'll bring the zombies, robots, and life-threatening peril!
Five Unconventional SFF Road Trips
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Five SFF Stories About Underground Resistance Movements
Taking a stand, while facing overwhelming odds.
Five SFF Stories About Underground Resistance Movements
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Five Fictional Investigators With Special Abilities
These sleuths bring a little something extra to the table...
Five Fictional Investigators With Special Abilities
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The System Works: Five SFF Organizations and Institutions Worth Defending
Not all systems and bureaucracies are corrupt.
The System Works: Five SFF Organizations and Institutions Worth Defending
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Five Works of SF That Undermine Their Own Thesis
Stories that lead to different conclusions than the author intended...
Five Works of SF That Undermine Their Own Thesis
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Notes on Remote Sensing: How to Spot Aliens at a Distance
It is more prudent to observe ETs at a distance. How might that be done? And how might they see us?
Notes on Remote Sensing: How to Spot Aliens at a Distance
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Five SF Novels About Being the Last People on Earth
Five futures ranging from the bucolic to the dystopian...
Five SF Novels About Being the Last People on Earth
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Five Futures Where the US Ended Not With a Bang But a Whimper
Sometimes empires just kind of fall apart over time—no catastrophe required.
Five Futures Where the US Ended Not With a Bang But a Whimper
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Five SFF Stories Driven by Plot-Facilitating Ignorance
Knowledge is power, but cluelessness is a great way to kick off a story...
Five SFF Stories Driven by Plot-Facilitating Ignorance
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Five Oddly, Unexpectedly Upbeat Works of SFF
From nuclear bombardment to homicidal ghosts, these stories are unexpectedly upbeat.
Five Oddly, Unexpectedly Upbeat Works of SFF
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Five SF Stories About Owning the Entire Earth
What happens when one individual owns the whole planet?
Five SF Stories About Owning the Entire Earth
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The Treacherous Business of Naming Stars in SF
Incorporating stellar nomenclature into fiction can be a wild ride.
The Treacherous Business of Naming Stars in SF
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Taming the High Frontier
From Babylon 5 to RPGs, everybody loves space colonies!
Taming the High Frontier: Five Works Featuring Space Colonies
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Five SFF Works Featuring Treacherous or Ineffectual Advisers
Whether corrupt schemers or hapless hacks, bad advisers excel at creating drama...
Five SFF Works Featuring Treacherous or Ineffectual Advisers
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The Science Fiction Book Club Will Be Greatly Missed
If reports are true, and I did not simply misunderstand, we bid a fond farewell to an SF institution.
The Science Fiction Book Club Will Be Greatly Missed