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― Borne
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― Rebecca
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Literary Treks: A Star Trek Books and Comics Group
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This is a Star Trek books and comics group that is linked with the Trek.fm podcast by the same name. Here is a place to talk about all the books and c ...more
Academic Reading Challenge
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— last activity Jan 04, 2024 04:51AM
This is a challenge for academics who feel that their reading has become over-specialized and possibly joyless, who want to read more literature for p ...more
SFF180 presents Space Opera September: Season 2: 2021
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Space opera is loosely defined as stories that are set predominately (if not entirely) in outer space, in which spaceflight is a key narrative element ...more
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