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Science Fiction
• stories that often tell about science and technology of the future
• involving partially true fictions laws or theories of science
• Settings:
- in the future
- in space
- on a different world
- in a different universe or dimension
By: Linda Brown, Gina Sharpe, and Marilyn McDonald
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Young Adult Science Fiction
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Start with the classics!
Verne's From The Earth To The Moon and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Well's The Time Machine and The War Of The Worlds, Huxley's Brave New World, Orwell's 1984, and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles
Robert Heinlein's Have Space Suit, Will Travel (1958)
John Christopher's Tripods Trilogy (1967)
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, Welcome to the Monkey House
Mendelsohn's Lizard Music
http://io9.com/5384382/where-to-start-with-young-adult-science-
"The challenge of writing science fiction is to stay as true to science fact as we know it, to try to get the science part as right as possible, while getting the emotional life of the characters right as well. I also think it's important to remember that science fiction doesn't have to be depressing. YA science fiction often paints a very bleak picture of the future. I think science fiction can be hopeful. I think it can even be funny."
—Margaret Bechard,
Children's-YA Author
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