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This year’s sci-fi spans many genres, and is often tinged with noir
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OUT of ideas for a gift? However your friends or family see life, you can be sure that this year’s crop of science fiction contains a gift (or even a gift set) that will confirm their world view.
The pessimist in your life will love Julia (HarperCollins), Sandra Newman’s sequel to Nineteen Eighty-Four, the book that helped to define the idea of dystopia. The novel is told from the perspective of the inscrutable femme fatale whose manipulations…