The latest in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series is out this month, along with a speculative retelling of Moby-Dick and a forgotten classic from 1936 ...

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This is definitely on my reading list: in fact, I am hoping we might choose it for a future New Scientist Book Club read. Longlisted for the Booker already, it has been described by our sci-fi ...

Plausible science fiction occupies a space between imagination and inquiry. It does not promise answers so much as ...

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir is one of today's best science fiction books. While much of the science and math is great, it falls a bit when it comes to evolution.

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