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It's all too rare that science fiction, as a genre, lives up to its potential. Science fiction is the one genre that can look into the infinity of the cosmos and allow the imagination to ponder the unfathomable mysteries therein. How can life evolve on other worlds? How does time function? How large does humanity loom in the galactic neighborhood? Are we significant at all, or a mere blip in the eternity of time? How many galaxies are created and destroyed with every eons-long lung-like breath of the expanding and contracting universe?

And what would alien life-forms look like? What would be their makeup, their look, their customs? Thanks to the popularity of "Star Trek" and "Star Wars," aliens have been reduced to humans with fac

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