I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still

watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,

soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,

Stories Without End from WB EZ Chicago.

Join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure.

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From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette.

I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another weekend and a short week, no less. This week, we are bringing you a super fun story that I got to work on with some colleagues recently here at WBEZ. Curious City is a show that goes straight to listeners to figure out what they should be covering. And when the Curious City team recently got a question about sci-fi libraries and books,

they came straight to Internet.

And of course, we were thrilled to help out.

First, let's meet our question asker.

Hey, my name is Andy Kukowski.

I live in Chicago.

I've been here for about 10 years now.

So Andy is a huge sci-fi fan.

He says one of his absolute favorites is Adrian Chikovsky's Children of Time.

What is it that you love about this genre?

Yeah.

Within sci-fi, there's all these sub-genres.

I think there's something there for everybody.

You know, there's the space opera, the dystopian post-apocalyptic thing, time travel, the Martha Wells' murderbought diaries, right?

Like humor in sci-fi.

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