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Sf writer alexander beliaev has written a book in which a city and a space station are named after him. Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginative content such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life. Space rather than science fiction, this is a penetrating look at humanity through an aliens eye. All of these activitiesdiscovery, scientific understanding, and the.
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