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

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How doomed Arctic explorer inspired sci-fi romantic thriller novel

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2M7PPCR HMS EREBUS trapped in the ice in 1846 during the third Franklin expedition to find a Northwest Passage .Painting byFrancois Musin about 1850

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

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Dane physicist Niels Bohr, pictured in his laboratory, received the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the structure of atoms.

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Ambitious book on quantum physics still fails to be accessible

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Our verdict on Ringworld by Larry Niven: Nice maths, shame about Teela

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Our verdict on Ringworld by Larry Niven: Nice maths, shame about Teela

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Read an extract from time-travel novel The Ministry of Time

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'Time travel was just a metaphor for controlling a narrative'

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Digital generated image of young woman standing on entrance of multicoloured portal door. Metaverse concept.

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This sci-fi debut is a quietly brilliant look at a disturbing future

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2H2R3TY Larry Niven attends The 36th and 37th Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards Gala at Taglyan Complex, Los Angeles, CA on October 22, 2021

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An interview with Larry Niven – Ringworld author and sci-fi legend

The author of Ringworld, the latest read for the 91av Book Club, is quizzed on everything from if he’d like to meet an alien to the art of writing

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

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Michel Nieva on writing from a mosquito's perspective for Dengue Boy

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