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    <title>Pithy Books: science fiction</title>
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    <description>Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “science fiction”.</description>
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    <lastBuildDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:09 GMT</lastBuildDate>
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      <title>Cress by Marissa Meyer: summary</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Imprisoned hacker Cress joins Cinder Scarlet Wolf Thorne to stop Levana&#39;s wedding to Kai.</description>
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      <title>Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert: summary</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Emperor Paul faces jihad fallout as Bene Gesserit and Tleilaxu plot with ghola Duncan to break him.</description>
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      <title>I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore: summary</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Alien teen Four hides in Ohio and develops Legacies with Sam and Sarah.</description>
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      <title>I, Robot by Isaac Asimov: summary</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Powell Donovan test Three Laws while Calvin narrates positronic puzzles.</description>
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      <title>Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro: summary</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Solar robot Klara loves Josie and bargains with the Sun to save her.</description>
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      <title>Neuromancer by William Gibson: summary</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Washed Case hired Armitage run Wintermute cyberspace heist.</description>
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      <title>Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples: summary</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Alana and Marko flee a galaxy-wide war with baby Hazel, hunted by both sides.</description>
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      <title>Scythe by Neal Shusterman: summary</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Citra and Rowan become apprentice scythes who must glean one another.</description>
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      <title>The Testaments by Margaret Atwood: summary</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Aunt Lydia, Agnes and Nicole conspire to bring down Gilead fifteen years later.</description>
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      <title>The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu: summary</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A physicist meets a secret from the Cultural Revolution and a game that models a dying alien sky.</description>
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      <title>Cat&#39;s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: summary</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Jonah researches the atom bomb and finds ice-nine and Bokononism on San Lorenzo.</description>
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      <title>Delirium by Lauren Oliver: summary</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>In a America where love is treated as disease, Lena Haloway counts down to her Cure until she meets Alex in Portland.</description>
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      <title>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick: summary</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Bounty hunter Rick Deckard retires escaped androids in ruined San Francisco while doubting what empathy still means.</description>
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      <title>Scarlet by Marissa Meyer: summary</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Scarlet searches for her grandmother with Wolf while escaped Cinder fights Levana in the Lunar Chronicles sequel.</description>
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      <title>The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey: summary</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Cassie Sullivan crosses ruined Ohio to save Sammy after four alien waves, trusting Evan Walker while doubting him.</description>
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      <title>The Death Cure by James Dashner: summary</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Thomas refuses WICKED&#39;s final test, remembers too much, and runs with the Gladers toward a last cure and a ship north.</description>
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      <title>Dark Matter by Blake Crouch: summary</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Abducted from his Chicago family, Jason Dessen wakes in a life he never chose and fights through worlds to return.</description>
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      <title>Foundation by Isaac Asimov: summary</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Seldon predicts the Empire will fall and seeds Terminus to cut the dark age to a thousand years.</description>
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      <title>Legend by Marie Lu: summary</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Day and June collide in the Republic: he is wanted for murder, she hunts him, then learns the truth about Metias and the plague.</description>
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      <title>Red Rising by Pierce Brown: summary</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Darrow, a Red miner on Mars, loses his wife and is remade as a Gold to infiltrate the Institute, where teens wage war for power and he plots revolution.</description>
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