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Marcel Proust, photographed in 1905

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Read an extract from Our Brains, Our Selves by Masud Husain

In this passage from Our Brains, Our Selves, winner of the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, neuroscientist Masud Husain recounts how novelist Marcel Proust became convinced, wrongly, that he'd had a stroke

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Left: Cover of The Dispossessed. Right: Ursula K. Le Guin in 2001

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Our verdict on ‘The Dispossessed’: A tricky but rewarding novel

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Ursula K. Le Guin in her home in Portland, Oregon, in 2001

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The best new science fiction books of October 2025

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Why is Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Dispossessed' so popular 50 years on?

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Why is Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Dispossessed' so popular 50 years on?

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The �鶹��ý Book Club has been reading Circular Motion by Alex Foster

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Our verdict on ‘Circular Motion’: this dystopia hit too close to home

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Ursula K. Le Guin in 2005

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Ursula Le Guin's son on why The Dispossessed is (maybe) his favourite

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The Dispossessed takes place on the twin worlds of Anarres and Urras

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Read an extract from The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Holy Mary on window Statuette of Holy Mary and vase with plastic flowers in window on a house with bright pink walls, Irish cottage, Ireland

Humans

Alice Roberts investigates the unstoppable rise of Christianity

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BOXBERG, GERMANY - MARCH 17: Boxberg Power Station is seen during sunset on March 17, 2016 in Boxberg, Germany. This lignite-fired power station is the second largest in Germany. (Photo by Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images)

Environment

New book about the story of carbon dioxide is a rousing call to action

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The �鶹��ý Book Club has just read Adam Roberts's Lake of Darkness

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Our verdict on Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts: A mixed bag

The �鶹��ý Book Club has just finished reading Adam Roberts's novel Lake of Darkness. Some of us loved it – but some of us weren't so sure about this far-future set slice of hard science fiction

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What would it feel like to be on a planet spinning out of control?

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Read an extract from Alex Foster’s sci-fi novel Circular Motion

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Adam Roberts's Lake of Darkness is a quest to understand utopia itself

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Our verdict on The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley: A thumbs up

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