TechnologyTwo excellent new sci-fi novels tackle robots in very different ways Luminous by Silvia Park and Ode to the Half-Broken by Suzanne Palmer are both thoughtful and well-written science fiction novels, featuring robots in richly realised worlds. But there the similarities end, says Emily H. Wilson Culture
SpaceRead an extract from Kim Stanley Robinson's sci-fi classic Red Mars This is the opening of Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, the Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Book Club read for April, as humans come to the planet to settle it Culture