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Books

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

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Humans

Did childcare fuel language? A new book makes the case

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Society

Powerful new book explores how noise has taken over the world

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Comment

91av recommends classic zombie film 28 Days Later

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Society

Fascinating and enraging book exposes the biases that shape our lives

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Mind

Biodiversity needs neurodiversity, says insightful new book

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The 91av Book Club has just read Adam Roberts's Lake of Darkness

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Our verdict on Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts: A mixed bag

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"The faster the planet, the fiercer the storms..."

Comment

What would it feel like to be on a planet spinning out of control?

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"I was weightless. The pod had taken flight..."

Environment

Read an extract from Alex Foster’s sci-fi novel Circular Motion

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In The End of the World As We Know It, other writers are telling stories set in the post-apocalyptic world of Stephen King's The Stand

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The best new science fiction books of August 2025

From a fresh take on Stephen King’s The Stand to a new novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky set on a poisoned world, August has a bumper crop of new science fiction novels

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Life

Earth’s extraordinary deep biosphere is our next great frontier

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Environment

What would it take to rebuild economics around the natural world?

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Comment

The 25 best fictional robots – according to 91av

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Comment

Fictional female robots have a long history, and it’s often quite dark

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