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Tim Winton: 'Sometimes I think we use the word dystopia as an opiate'

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Tim Winton: 'Sometimes I think we use the word dystopia as an opiate'

The 91av Book Club's February read is Tim Winton's novel Juice, set in a future Australia that is so hot it is almost unliveable. Here, the author lays out his reasons for writing it – and why he doesn't see it as dystopian

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Sierra Greer

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Sierra Greer discusses her award-winning sex robot novel 'Annie Bot'

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Directly above view of a chef chopping tomatoes

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Can we battle the downsides of a rule-based world, asks a new book

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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

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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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Ken MacLeod

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Author Ken MacLeod on the life and work of the late Iain M. Banks

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Our verdict on sci-fi novel Every Version of You: We (mostly) loved it

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Our verdict on sci-fi novel Every Version of You: We (mostly) loved it

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Read an extract from The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

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Read an extract from The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

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Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an ‘astounding’ world-builder

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Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an ‘astounding’ world-builder

The 91av Book Club is currently reading the late Iain M. Banks’s Culture novel The Player of Games. Fellow science fiction author Bethany Jacobs reveals how his work inspired her

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Grace Chan: 'How to stay in love after uploading into virtual reality'

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Our verdict on Our Brains, Our Selves: A mix of praise and misgivings

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Book Club: Read an extract from Every Version of You by Grace Chan

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If you could upload your mind to a virtual utopia, would you?

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