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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?

Commissioning editor Marcus Gipps reveals what makes an iconic science fiction novel

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How faster-than-light explosions could reveal the universe’s secrets

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Simple menu tweak can nudge people into choosing climate-friendly food

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Ian McEwan’s new novel weaves climate change into literary mystery

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Making atoms self-magnify reveals their quantum wave functions

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FX's Alien: Earth --

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Alien: Earth adds surprisingly good TV dimension to veteran sci-fi

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Participants prepare kimchi, a traditional Korean dish of spicy fermented cabbage and radish, during a kimchi making festival held amid snowfall at the Jogyesa Temple in Seoul on November 27, 2024. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

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Tim Spector's guide to fermentation is meticulous and persuasive

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Should it be space-time or spacetime – and why does it matter anyway?

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In Mason Coile's Exiles, a human crew arrive on Mars

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The best new science fiction books of September 2025

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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

The �鶹��ý Book Club has just finished reading Alex Foster's sci-fi novel “Circular Motion”. We liked it – but there were calls for a bit more science in this slice of science fiction

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

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

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Inside the missions that made the moon landings possible

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Could a huge lunar telescope be our best chance of spotting aliens?

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