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Read an extract from Kim Stanley Robinson's sci-fi classic Red Mars

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Read an extract from Kim Stanley Robinson's sci-fi classic Red Mars

This is the opening of Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, the 91av Book Club read for April, as humans come to the planet to settle it

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How working out like an astronaut can reduce back pain and slow ageing

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Adrian Tchaikovsky: 'I try and do interesting aliens'

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Adrian Tchaikovsky: 'I try and do interesting aliens'

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Captivating space images show how it has inspired us through the ages

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Captivating space images show how it has inspired us through the ages

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Rumours of a Firefly reboot abound, but should the Serenity fly again?

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Rumours of a Firefly reboot abound, but should the Serenity fly again?

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Maggie Aderin's dream: To walk by the footprints of Neil Armstrong

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91av recommends sci-fi novel Under the Eye of the Big Bird

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91av recommends sci-fi novel Under the Eye of the Big Bird

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Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Martian - and it's fab

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Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Martian - and it's fab

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Why Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first in space – and who beat him to it

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Adrian Tchaikovsky's new Children of Time novel is brilliant

The latest novel in this entirely original science-fiction series features a human-size mantis shrimp as an "uplifted" species. It's ambitious and fantastic, says sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson

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Physics

Would aliens do physics, or is science a human invention?

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Space

A crisis in cosmology may mean hidden dimensions really exist

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The best new science fiction books of March 2026

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NASA’s Artemis moon exploration programme is getting a major makeover

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