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December book club canceled. Short stories instead!
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Teachers should be reading scifi with their classes. Classic literature is important too, but scifi can open up a child's mind to so many new ideas that they'd never be exposed to otherwise.
Especially high school literature class really distorted my view of reading entirely. EVERY SINGLE THING we read was at least 100 years old, some of it over a thousand what with Beowulf and the Canterbury Tales. It has this "nothing new is worthy" message to it. My grandmother handed me a book that was a mystery murder plot set in a slightly futuristic theme park and the teenage daughter character had an mp3 player in it (this was in like 2006) and I was like "Oh, right, books are allowed to be new."
Honestly, there's a lot of Sci-Fi that would fall under that term about now.
Hell yes. Asimov's Foundation, Herbert's Dune, there's so much to choose from.
One of the first books I can remember reading was a Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle. The concept of tesseracts totally blew my young mind.
I never would have put Pern into 'science fiction' myself.