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Seasonal gift ideas for lovers of terrific science reads and top films

Stuck for ideas on what to get the science lover in your life? From great sci-fi to books on how to build a pond or see the stars, these are the cultural gems that staff at Âé¶¹´«Ã½ recommend

4 December 2019

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EMILY WILSON, editor

I AM biased because they are our columnist, but Annalee Newitz’s new novel (Orbit), in which feminists zip through history via time machines that look like rocks, is fantastically fresh, and would make a great stocking filler. Ditto Margaret Atwood’s (Chatto & Windus), which was more of a delicious page-turner than I had expected.

and its new sequel , both by Adrian Tchaikovsky and published by Tor, would also make a great gift as a pair. They are quite old-fashioned sci-fi, but what’s not…

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