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New Scientist Book Club
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The best new science fiction books of 2024, from Adam Roberts to Rachel Kushner
2024 has been a great year for sci-fi, from time travel stories to those set in space Matt Mawson/Millennium…
Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficult time
Mars – the kind of place to raise your kids? ESA /MPS/OSIRIS/MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA As a kind of living embodiment…
How to Kill an Asteroid review: Hollywood fantasy vs the real science of saving Earth
A meteor burns up as it nears Earth, unlike asteroids that can hit the surface and wreak havoc James Blake/Falklands…
Read an extract from Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake
A reconstruction of male and female Neanderthals based on the La Chapelle-aux-Saints fossils S. ENTRESSANGLE/E. DAYNES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY…
Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower
“There’s no moon, but we can see very well. The sky is full of stars.” The Milky Way…
N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower
N.K. Jemisin Laura Hanifin There’s power in threes. The rule of three, we call it in the writing…
Coming of Age review: Why do teenagers take such risks? A new book has some answers
Teenage cliques can offer protection – or enforce exclusion Virginia Woods-Jack/Millennium Images, UK Coming of AgeLucy Foulkes (Bodley Head…
The Long History of the Future review: Why many inventions, from flying cars to smart robots, fail to launch
Flying cars have long been part of our imagined future – but that is where they may remain Shutterstock/Design Projects The…
Tade Thompson on his debut novel Rosewater, which makes Nigeria ground zero in an alien invasion
I’m about to lie to you. I’m going to tell you all the lofty reasons why I wrote…
Read an extract from Tade Thompson’s science fiction novel Rosewater
Jane Khomi/Moment RF/Getty Images Rosewater: Opening Day 2066 Now I’m at the Integrity Bank job for forty minutes…