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Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral

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Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral"

Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space Station

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Readers deserve better from popular science books

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Readers deserve better from popular science books

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Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

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Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

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The best new science fiction books of September 2024

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The best new science fiction books of September 2024

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A man is lying in a hammock in the sun, he is reading a book on his digital tablet. The hammock is hanging in a beautiful green forest in Sweden.

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The best science non-fiction books of 2024 so far

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TOPSHOT - A man pushes a bycicle along as he walks amid building rubble in the devastated area around Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital on April 3, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

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A powerful new book shows why it's so important to understand war

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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The best new science fiction books of May 2024

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The best new science fiction books of May 2024

A new Stephen King short story collection, an Ursula K. Le Guin reissue and a celebration of cyberpunk featuring writing from Philip K. Dick and Cory Doctorow are among the new science fiction titles published this month

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Annie Jacobsen: 'What if we had a nuclear war?’

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Read an extract from Nuclear War: A scenario by Annie Jacobsen

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The Biology of Kindness review: Living well and prospering

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Martin MacInnes: 'Science fiction can be many different things'

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