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The book jacket of Slow Gods by Claire North

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Read an extract from Slow Gods by Claire North

The 91av Book Club’s read for July is Claire North’s space opera Slow Gods. In this extract from its second chapter, we learn about the upbringing of its protagonist on the planet Tu-mdo

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Why I started my sci-fi novel with a world-ending supernova

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SELSEY, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 10: Workers from Chichester council clean spilt debris from a refrigeration container that fell from a tanker and washed ashore on the beach on December 10, 2025 in Selsey, England. A clean-up effort is underway to remove debris from England's southern coastline after sixteen containers carrying bananas and other fruit tipped off the Baltic Kipper cargo ship into the Solent strait between the Isle of Wight and British mainland. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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The best sci-fi novel in 2026 so far – plus 6 other great reads

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A spherical rocky body being destroyed in a collision.

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Hundreds of new moons are revealing our solar system’s violent history

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The best new science-fiction books of June 2026

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The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

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The best new popular science books of May 2026

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Ann Leckie continues to shine with new sci-fi novel Radiant Star

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Antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Andes. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two companion galaxies to our own Milky Way galaxy, can be seen as bright smudges in the night sky, in the centre of the photograph.

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What to read this week: Emma Chapman’s mind-expanding Radio Universe

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We may have seen a ‘dirty fireball’ star explosion for the first time

An incredibly powerful flash of X-rays spotted by the Einstein Probe telescope appears to be a kind of explosion first theorised more than 30 years ago

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

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

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

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Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Martian – and it’s fab

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