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Sci-fi books are rare in school even though they help kids better understand science
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I'm just guessing here, but it is probably easier to get kids into Fantasy. Tolkien was great then and it is just as great now to get into Fantasy. SciFi on the other hand is always somewhat grounded in the technology of its time. While I really like this, I do think to get into the genre you need something more recent and therefore more grounded in tech you know, which means libraries would have to swap their inventory more often. I'd imagine it's really off-putting for a kid if their futuristic novel suddenly has an CTR display which they may have not even seen before.