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<i>Close Encounters of the Third Kind</i>: Yearning for a Place in the Cosmos

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An alien spacecraft hovers over Devil's Tower in a scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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Science Fiction Film Club

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Yearning for a Place in the Cosmos

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Photo of author Suzan Palumbo and the cover of her upcoming book, Countess
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cover reveal

Revealing Countess by Suzan Palumbo

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Drake (Marshall Teague) holds an alien device in Babylon 5 "Infection"
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Babylon 5

Babylon 5 Rewatch: “Infection”

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Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) in Star Trek: Discovery "Face the Strange"
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Star Trek: Discovery

Here We Go ’Round Again — Star Trek: Discovery’s “Face the Strange”

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Book covers of five "fix-up" science fiction novels
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Five Superb SFF Fix-Up Novels 

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Cover of Fledgling by S.K. Ali, showing a person wearing a red hood and cape over grey clothes, against a black, red and purple background also showing two grey birds.
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Young Adult

Read an Excerpt From S.K. Ali’s Fledgling

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Book cover of The Sparrow, arranged in a repeating tile pattern
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The Sparrow

What The Sparrow Got Right About the Future — And What It Missed

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The Brother (Joe Morton) and a young boy in a scene from The Brother From Another Planet
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Science Fiction Film Club

The Brother From Another Planet: Beer on the Rocks and the Kindness of Strangers

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Front Lines and Frontiers

Young Doctors in Space: Star Surgeon by Alan E. Nourse

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Adira and Mollari in Babylon 5 "Born to the Purple"
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Babylon 5

Babylon 5 Rewatch: “Born to the Purple”

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Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) faces The Reverend Mother (Charlotte Rampling) in Denis Villeneuve's Dune
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Dune

How Dune Solves the Problem of AI

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Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Culber (Wilson Cruz) sit together in a lounge in Star Trek: Discovery "Jinaal"
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Star Trek: Discovery

The Game Is Afoot — Star Trek: Discovery’s “Jinaal”

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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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