Don’t have time to read? Book-A-Minute SF/F

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Ultra-condensed SF&F books by David J. Parker and Samuel Stoddard include Ben Bova's Mars (1992), Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) and H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (1898).

This might be a sign that there is more literate life on other planets.