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The Universe Next Door - Presidential Edition

Election season is in full swing, and as depressing as ever. All the candidates are horrible garbage people except maybe the one you’re voting for, and even they’re probably just the best of a bad bunch. Maybe that’s what we get when we insist that all our candidates be natural-born Americans and non-fictional. After all, there’s a whole universe full of imaginary rulers out there with proven political skills, and I’m sure one of them would be willing to serve as President for a term or two. Let’s meet our candidates.

 

That’s No Moon! - Buzzreads (The YA Lit Blog)

That’s no moon! Nope, it’s just another Buzzreads post, celebrating the release of the long awaited Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there lived a librarian who was curious about what other sci-fi books she could read to get her in the mood for the next episode in the saga. Luckily, her local library was able to help her out...

 

Star Wars - The Universe Next Door

Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits theaters in a few days, and if you’re anything like the entire rest of the Internet, you’ve been hysterically excited about it since the summer of 2012. How are you ever going to make it one more hour, let alone days? Now, the obvious solution would be to read some Star Wars books to pass the time, but there are less than 300 of those. I’m sure you’ve read and re-read all of them too many times for them to provide much comfort. So instead, you tell me what you like best about Star Wars, and I’ll tell you what book you should be reading to find more of that. I’ll be giving recommendations in the comments, but for the sake of having a blog post to comment on, please welcome our crowd of imaginary patrons with conveniently phrased questions.

 

Solar System Tour - The Universe Next Door

Another book, another planet! Let Choctaw Library manager Todd Podzemny guide you on a literary  tour of our local neighborhood: the solar system as he shares his favorite works of science fiction that have taken place on each planet (or, well, celestial object).

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