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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'

The author of the award-winning classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the 91av Book Club, on the science behind his creation

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

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

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Read an extract from Michel Nieva’s science fiction novel Dengue Boy

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Read an extract from Michel Nieva’s science fiction novel Dengue Boy

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91av Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as my hero

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91av Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as my hero

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Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Adrian Tchaikovsky talks aliens, entomology and new book 'Alien Clay'

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Adrian Tchaikovsky: "Could life have gone any other way?"

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Read an extract from Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay

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Read an extract from Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay

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Woman in her late 30s reading a book in the mountain cabin, relaxing in the hammock next to the fireplace.

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The best popular science books to look forward to in 2025

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Our writers pick the 26 best science fiction short stories of all time

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Our writers pick the 26 best science fiction short stories of all time

We asked 91av writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E. Butler’s Bloodchild, via stories from George R. R. Martin and Ursula K. Le Guin, here are the results

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Why Kelly and Zach Weinersmith are sceptical about a future on Mars

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The best new science fiction books of 2024

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Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficult time

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Creation Lake author Rachel Kushner on the 'ultimate writer's task'

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