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I’ve already done a post on R is for Reading , but I’m dedicating a post to science fiction since I feel it deserves one. I loved E.T and ‘Back to the Future’ as a child. I also enjoyed Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton back in the 90s when I was in high school. I’ve watched the movie, too, numerous times over the years. The movie has spun off sequels, too. One of the earliest science fiction writers was H.G. Wells who wrote The Time Machine. Some best-selling science fiction writers include Michael Crichton and some books of Dean Koontz. I read a lot of Michael Crichton in high school. My mom’s first science fiction novel was ‘Brave New World’ by Aldous Huxley. She was 18 when she read it. In fact, even my English teacher from high school had asked us to read this book along with 1984 by George Orwell when we were in Class 10. Recently, my mom read Blake Crouch’s Wayward Pines trilogy. The same author’s ‘Recursion’ is also doing well. Many of the science fiction stories ...