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While dozens of brilliant writers help expand the sci-fi genre every year, three specific authors helped define its rules.

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With the 50th anniversary of the release of Star Wars in 2027, it's time to say goodbye to this spent franchise.

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Science fiction ‘s task is to imagine our future; its secret wish is to invent it. Brackett, while casting himself as a mere psychologist and psychology as a mere medical science, plays with the ...

The Nobel-winning author, whose newest book is out this week, discusses work by a few of her favorite writers.

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