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Our verdict on The Player of Games: Iain M. Banks is still a master

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Our verdict on The Player of Games: Iain M. Banks is still a master

The 91av Book Club has just finished our December read, Iain M. Banks's sci-fi novel The Player of Games - and most of us were fans of this big-thinking Culture tale

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The challenges of writing from the perspective of a sex robot

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The challenges of writing from the perspective of a sex robot

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Read an extract from Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

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Read an extract from Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

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Physicists stirred up controversy with scientific cooking tips in 2025

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The cassette tape made a comeback in 2025 thanks to a DNA upgrade

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Mathematics

Mathematicians unified key laws of physics in 2025

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The best and most ridiculous robots of 2025 in pictures

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Press Photo: Microsoft?s Majorana 1 chip Majorana 1, the first quantum chip powered by a Topological Core based on a revolutionary new class of materials developed by Microsoft. Photos by John Brecher for Microsoft.

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Microsoft made a splash with a controversial quantum computer in 2025

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Environment

2025's best photos of the natural world, from volcanoes to icebergs

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Space

Was 2025 the year we found signs of past life on Mars?

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to the biggest question in the universe, we will need to bring samples back to Earth

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A ghostly glow was seen emanating from living things in 2025

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6 incredible new dinosaurs we discovered in 2025

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The world’s first fully 3D-printed microscope went big in 2025

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Physicists used 'dark photons' in an effort to rewrite physics in 2025

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