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Why Kelly and Zach Weinersmith are sceptical about a future on Mars
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New Scientist Book Club
Welcome to the New Scientist Book Club, a place to find out about the very best science and science fiction books out there, and to talk about them with your fellow book lovers. We’ll also be bringing you our authors’ own favourite reads, along with video interviews and extracts. Get all the details here, and then sign up here and join the discussion!
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Creation Lake author Rachel Kushner on the 'ultimate writer's task'
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Earth
Forget Hollywood, science has real plans to defend us from asteroids
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Humans
Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake
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Sci-fi author Nisi Shawl on Octavia E. Butler's legacy
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Environment
Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower
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N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower
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Tade Thompson: 'It's like the internet, but for aliens'
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Imagining Nigeria as ground zero in an alien invasion
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Space
Read an extract from Tade Thompson’s science fiction novel Rosewater
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Technology
The best science fiction books of 2024 so far
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The best science non-fiction books of 2024 so far
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