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Our verdict on Ringworld by Larry Niven: Nice maths, shame about Teela

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Our verdict on Ringworld by Larry Niven: Nice maths, shame about Teela

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the 91av Book Club’s thoughts on our latest read, the science fiction classic Ringworld by Larry Niven

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Read an extract from time-travel novel The Ministry of Time

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'Time travel was just a metaphor for controlling a narrative'

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This sci-fi debut is a quietly brilliant look at a disturbing future

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2H2R3TY Larry Niven attends The 36th and 37th Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards Gala at Taglyan Complex, Los Angeles, CA on October 22, 2021

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An interview with Larry Niven – Ringworld author and sci-fi legend

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Grisly new book reveals what zombie insects can teach us

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Space

A doe-eyed look at space exploration is inadequate for the zeitgeist

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H7X53M Los Cedros River, Cotacachi-Cayapas Reserve, Ecuador

Life

Robert Macfarlane is wrong to cast rivers as life forms in new book

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Egret Take off at Pallikaranai Marsh, Chennai, India

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Chronicling nature activism in a coastal corner of India

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Book Club: Readers admit they weren’t impressed with our latest novel

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Book Club: Readers admit they weren’t impressed with our latest novel

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the book club’s thoughts on our latest read, the weird and wild Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva. Warning: spoilers ahead

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Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'

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Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic

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Michel Nieva on writing from a mosquito's perspective for Dengue Boy

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91av recommends Weather Girl, an electrifying one-woman show

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