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The best new science fiction books of 2024

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The best new science fiction books of 2024

Murder in space, a sexbot, a dystopian vision of the future: our science fiction columnist Emily H. Wilson picks her top five reads 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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closeup of Berry from the juneberry

Life

91av recommends Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry

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Rachel Kushner

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Creation Lake author Rachel Kushner on the 'ultimate writer's task'

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D5YXF5 A Meteor glowing as it enters the Earth's atmosphere

Earth

Forget Hollywood, science has real plans to defend us from asteroids

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Tim Winton's post-apocalyptic new novel is terrifying and brilliant

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Tim Winton's post-apocalyptic new novel is terrifying and brilliant

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Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

Humans

Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

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Nisi Shawl and Grace Wade

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Sci-fi author Nisi Shawl on Octavia E. Butler's legacy

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Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower

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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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N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower

The Hugo award-winning author explains how she finally got to grips with Octavia E. Butler's dystopian novel, the latest pick for the 91av Book Club, on a third read

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Tade Thompson: 'It's like the internet, but for aliens'

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Life

The inside story of heroic efforts to save three bird species

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Society

91av recommends: Rutger Bregman's Humankind

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Physics

Time travel sci-fi novel is a rip-roaringly good thought experiment

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