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Everything everything genre book6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() It is very grounded in the real world, but the daughter in this family becomes haunted by a girl who drowned during the voyage. It's a story of a family fleeing Afghanistan, a mother, father, sister and brother, and they are trying to make their way to Australia. You're seeing a lot more stuff that just looks different, and not just in terms of the skin color of the characters on the page, but in terms of the very architecture of these books."Īmal El-Mohtar's pick: On Fragile Waves, by E. There's a lot more demographic diversity. There are more writers from queer backgrounds. "I mean, there are more writers of color. We are the happening," says writer Tochi Onyebuchi, one of the judges on this year's poll. There's been incredible change in the genre over the past 10 years, and that's why we decided to focus this year's NPR Summer Reader Poll on favorite sci-fi and fantasy of the past decade. People have a lot of preconceived ideas about sci-fi and fantasy - that it's for nerds, that it's just about spaceships or elves, that the writing isn't great, or that everything is a door-stopping 18-book series. ![]() For more, sign up for the newsletter and follow on Twitter This story comes from Life Kit, NPR's family of podcasts to help make life better - covering everything from exercise to raising kids to making friends. ![]()
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