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Science fiction

This is our hub for all things sci-fi where we bring you the best from across books, TV and film. This page features round-ups of the latest science fiction, in-depth reviews and interviews with leading sci-fi authors.
Why is Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Dispossessed' so popular 50 years on?

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Why is Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Dispossessed' so popular 50 years on?

Commissioning editor Marcus Gipps reveals what makes an iconic science fiction novel

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Environment

Simple menu tweak can nudge people into choosing climate-friendly food

News

New Zealand, South Island, Wanaka, Otago, Woman on Coromandel peak at sunrise

Environment

Ian McEwan’s new novel weaves climate change into literary mystery

Culture

Physics

Making atoms self-magnify reveals their quantum wave functions

News

FX's Alien: Earth --

Space

Alien: Earth adds surprisingly good TV dimension to veteran sci-fi

Culture

Participants prepare kimchi, a traditional Korean dish of spicy fermented cabbage and radish, during a kimchi making festival held amid snowfall at the Jogyesa Temple in Seoul on November 27, 2024. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

Health

Tim Spector's guide to fermentation is meticulous and persuasive

Culture

In Mason Coile's Exiles, a human crew arrive on Mars

Comment

The best new science fiction books of September 2025

Culture

The 91av Book Club has been reading Circular Motion by Alex Foster

Comment

Our verdict on ‘Circular Motion’: this dystopia hit too close to home

Culture

Ursula K. Le Guin in 2005

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Ursula Le Guin's son on why The Dispossessed is (maybe) his favourite

Culture

The Dispossessed takes place on the twin worlds of Anarres and Urras

Space

Read an extract from The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

The 91av Book Club is currently reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic novel The Dispossessed. In this extract from its opening, we get our first glimpse of the planet Anarres

Culture

Health

Could lacing food with fat-trapping microbeads help us lose weight?

News

Comment

91av recommends classic zombie film 28 Days Later

Culture

Comment

David Cronenberg's new sci-fi film is devastating and mysterious

Culture

Life

Do the bumps on a bell pepper reveal how sweet it will be? Er, no

Regulars

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