Isaac Asimov 1951
- What it is
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Full of big ideas · it changes how you see things
- Genre
- Science fiction Classics
- Feels
- Epic Hopeful Cerebral Defiant Adventurous
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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2001
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Full of big ideas · it messes with your head
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Full of big ideas · a world to get lost in
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Full of big ideas · meeting beings from another world
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Odd and endearing · funny, and it bites
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You won't want to come back · a mystery you want to solve
Children of Time
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Full of big ideas · you'll keep turning it over for days
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Full of big ideas · nothing is quite what it seems
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You won't want to come back, but in fantasy
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