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Read an extract from Adam Roberts’s far future-set Lake of Darkness

In this passage from near the opening of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the 91av Book Club, we are given an insight into how deep-space travel works in Adam Roberts’s universe

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JHP71X A black hole is an object so compact - usually a collapsed star - that nothing can escape its gravitational pull. Not even light.

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Why Adam Roberts set out to write a sci-fi utopia, not a dystopia

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Somerville, MA - October 27: Pria Anand is a neurologist and the author of The Mind Electric, out from Simon & Schuster (U.S.) and Little, Brown (U.K.) in June 2025 on October 27, 2024 in Somerville, MA. ( David Degner / www.DavidDegner.com )

Mind

Spellbinding debut book explores the marvels of our brains

Culture

This daringly experimental thriller is a puzzle-lover's delight

Mind

This daringly experimental thriller is a puzzle-lover's delight

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A woman looking at a species exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Life

A new book reveals the deep flaws in our natural history museums

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Royal Navy officer and Polar explorer Graham Gore (c1808-1847) in 1845.

Video

How doomed Arctic explorer inspired sci-fi romantic thriller novel

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by ADAM VAUGHAN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (14138456b) An aerial photograph taken by drone shows the recently felled tree at Sycamore Gap in Northumberland, Britain, 05 October 2023. The famous tree at Sycamore Gap was cut down on the night of 27 September 2023, leading to the arrests of a 16-year-old boy and a 60-year-old man on suspicion of causing criminal damage. The tree appeared in Kevin Costner's 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves and was part of the landscape for 200 years. One week after Britain's iconic Sycamore Gap Tree was felled, Northumberland, United Kingdom - 05 Oct 2023

Mind

A new book argues that revenge is an addiction – but doesn't convince

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Brixham UK. 09-19-23.Agatha Christie's book, Miss Marple's final cases. A murder mystery story.

Chemistry

Killer new book uncovers Agatha Christie's knowledge of toxicology

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El Eternauta. Ricardo Dar??n as Juan Salvo in El Eternauta. Cr. Mariano Landet / Netflix ??2025

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This stunning post-apocalyptic drama is the one you should be watching

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WHA2R6 Frederic and Irene Joliet-Curie in their Paris Laboratory

Physics

Physicist Frank Close's new book is a welcome rework of the atomic age

The story of the birth and growth of nuclear science is rebalanced in Destroyer of Worlds, which gives due prominence to the role of women

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Society

A compelling book asks if we are killing off the idea of private life

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Physics

Fabulous time travel novel is part-thriller and part-romance

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Physics

Ambitious book on quantum physics still fails to be accessible

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Mathematics

Why exploring "equality" in a new maths book may help the real world

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