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Don’t miss: a game to make you suffer and a new post-apocalyptic film

Tackle Anarchy Softworks' latest video game, try a book about ancient robots or see the big screen version of sci-fi yarn Mortal Engines

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Swivel-eyed State Sentinels and Observers bear down on you as you try to master Anarchy Softworks’ , out 11 December.

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BBC Radio 4’s Science Stories will celebrate the efforts of British astronomer Arthur Eddington to mend a war-torn world with science, at 9 pm GMT on 12 December.

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Civilisation has collapsed and cities on wheels roam, preying on each other. , pictured above, puts Philip Reeve’s sci-fi on the big screen. In UK cinemas from 14 December.

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Space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock joins the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at King’s Place, London, on 16 December at 11.30 am for another concert in the , the Universe and Everything season.

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Robots are nothing new, says Adrienne Mayor in her book , machines, and ancient dreams of technology (Princeton University Press).

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Surgeon Roger Kneebone fills his podcast . A composer obsessed with automata, a trumpet player-turned-psychologist and a not-so-mad hatter are recent guests.

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Topics: Astronomy / Books / Robots / Science fiction / Video games