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Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower

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Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower

In the opening to Octavia E. Butler's prescient science fiction novel Parable of the Sower, the latest pick for the �鶹��ý Book Club, we are introduced to Lauren Olamina and start to learn about the dystopian future her story takes place in

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N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower

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N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower

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How Great British Bake Off's Josh Smalley tempers chocolate

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A dramatic twist to the Gaia hypothesis

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The science behind tempering chocolate

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Still from Interstellar

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Interstellar to Doctor Who: Sci-fi dramas getting science mostly right

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Tade Thompson

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Tade Thompson: 'It's like the internet, but for aliens'

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Ambitious story of how life shapes Earth ends superb trilogy

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The best new science fiction books of August 2024

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The best new science fiction books of August 2024

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Epic images show old mines transformed into a library, lab and museum

Amazing images of an open-air library, underground lab and design museum show the reincarnation of dead mines, captured in a new book, 102 Things to Do With a Hole in the Ground

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How to make a perfect baked Alaska? It's all about thermodynamics

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Imagining Nigeria as ground zero in an alien invasion

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Read an extract from Tade Thompson’s science fiction novel Rosewater

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The best new science fiction books of July 2024

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