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“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”
― Albert Einstein
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Online discussion forum for the Sword and Laser podcast and monthly book club pick. Subscribe to the audio podcast: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podca ...more
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The Book Club of the podcast "The Incomparable." Jason Snell talks about geeky pop culture with a rotating panel of regular guests! http://www.theinco ...more

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Adult Fiction, Book Club, Children's, Comics, Fantasy, Graphic novels, History, Non-fiction, Politics, Science, Science fiction, aliens, cyberpunk, hard-science-fiction, dystopia, space-opera, and picture-books


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