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Adam Roberts is the author of numerous science fiction novels and the winner of prizes including the . He is also a professor in 19th-century literature and culture at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

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Space

Read an extract from Adam Roberts’s far future-set Lake of Darkness

Culture

JHP71X A black hole is an object so compact - usually a collapsed star - that nothing can escape its gravitational pull. Not even light.

Comment

Why Adam Roberts set out to write a sci-fi utopia, not a dystopia

Culture

Jupiter from Europa. Computer artwork of a view towards Jupiter and its moons, across the surface of Europa as it might have looked four billion years ago. Europa is the fourth largest of the moons that orbit Jupiter. It is believed to be composed of silicate rocks with a layer of water ice covering the entire surface. It may contain more water than all of Earth's oceans combined but its distance from its sun meant that there wasn't enough heat to prevent it from freezing over.

Humans

11 of the best science fiction books for holiday reading

Culture

Humans

Why Le Guin's science fiction surpasses mere thought experiments

Culture

Space

If I were a Martian, I'd start running now

Culture

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Life

On the pain of others: The case for animal rights

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