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The best new science fiction books of December 2024

There are slimmer sci-fi pickings than usual at the end of the year, but gems can still be found, whether that’s a visit to George R. R. Martin’s Wild Card universe, or a graphic novel adaptation of Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem

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The best new science fiction books of December 2024

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The best new science fiction books of 2024

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The best new science fiction books of 2024

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The best new popular science books of 2024

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Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficult time

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Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficult time

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This bold, experimental slice of deep-space sci-fi is just brilliant

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Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral

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Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral"

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Readers deserve better from popular science books

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Readers deserve better from popular science books

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Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

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Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

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The best new science fiction books of September 2024

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The best new science fiction books of September 2024

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The best science non-fiction books of 2024 so far

Want to save our seas? Make exotic cocktails? Ponder life's meaning? Whatever your plans this July, Simon Ings rounds up the year's best non-fiction so far

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TOPSHOT - A man pushes a bycicle along as he walks amid building rubble in the devastated area around Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital on April 3, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

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A powerful new book shows why it's so important to understand war

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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