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Stuart Jeffries on a golden age of British science-fiction writing 
EducationGuardian.co.uk | by Stuart Jeffries | Sun, Jul 12
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This is a golden age for British science fiction, chiefly thanks to a wave of writers who are tackling an area their American rivals tend to leave well alone - far-future set, space-operatic, hard sci-fi. Americans tend to set their sci-fi in soft (ie, scientifically unsupported) near fu...
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