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The best self-help books masquerading as sci-fi

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The best sci-fi books with strange settings

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The best science fiction books with a young protagonist

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The best fantasy novels that make you feel like you’ve actually been there

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The best magic-in-space books for middle schoolers

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My favorite books about getting mysterious powers

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The best sci-fi books for visiting alien worlds

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The best science fiction & fantasy books featuring incredible mothers

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The best science fiction books for fantasy readers

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My favorite books that create an ‘inner consistency of reality’

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The best sci-fi books that make you feel part of their strange new worlds

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The best science fiction books that use an invented drug

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The best fantasy novels combining adventures, escape, and characters you love or love to hate

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My favorite books that explore what it means to be human

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The best space opera books with a hint (or a whole lot) of magic

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My favorite books to enjoy the world's greatest classic science fiction and fantasy

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My favorite books in superversive fiction

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The best science fiction books that don’t actually care about genre

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The best sci-fi novels where food plays a defining role in the story

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The best science fantasy novels set in a dark, dystopian world or universe

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