Close Encounters of the Best Kind: The Latest Sci-Fi
Not only is science fiction alive and well—it’s flourishing. From the big screen (howdy, Wall-E) to the big books (like Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, which has attracted loads of prepublication praise), 2008 has been a great year for sci-fi. My friend Diana Tixier Herald, author of Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests (Libraries Unlimited, 2005), saw it co...

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