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Sci-fi books, Culture - 2025

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Our favourite science fiction books of all time (the ones we forgot)

Following on from our first list, we asked 91av staff to pick even more of their favourite sci-fi books of all time. From Isaac Asimov and Ursula K. Le Guin to Star Wars – the list has it all this time, we hope…

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2YF8KFA A man takes the ice bath in frozen lake, the icy water providing a refreshing and invigorating experience during winter swimming

Health

An expert's new book unravels the amazing secrets of the vagus nerve

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The best new science fiction books of May 2025

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Shortlist book stack

Environment

This sensational novel shows what climate fiction can be

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Mind

Reading for pleasure has plummeted over the past 20 years

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W7E22Y Adolf Hitler at a car show in Berlin, Germany, 1935. Artist: Unknown. Image shot 1935. Exact date unknown.

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91av recommends David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires

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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

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

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

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Speculative novel layers Groundhog Day with existential dreaminess

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Speculative novel layers Groundhog Day with existential dreaminess

Solvej Balle's newly translated speculative novel, On the Calculation of Volume (parts I and II), examines the numbing effects of time through the old trope of being stuck in a single day. It is an effective meditation

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Humans

Gripping story reveals race to crack world's oldest script, cuneiform

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Rereading the best sci-fi writers of all time: Larry Niven

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Technology

Brilliant sci-fi novel shows robots coming to grips with emancipation

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Mathematics

This excellent guide to the science of uncertainty is very welcome

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