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The best new science fiction books of May 2025
May’s new science fiction novels include a hot tip from our culture editor, as well as war on an alien planet from Bora Chung
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Environment
This sensational novel shows what climate fiction can be
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Mind
Reading for pleasure has plummeted over the past 20 years
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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends David de Jong’s Nazi Billionaires
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Book Club: Readers admit they weren’t impressed with our latest novel
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Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a ‘great gaudy intellectual toy’
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Space
Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic
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Physics
Speculative novel layers Groundhog Day with existential dreaminess
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Humans
Gripping story reveals race to crack world’s oldest script, cuneiform
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Rereading the best sci-fi writers of all time: Larry Niven
Larry Niven's Ringworld won him the Hugo and Nebula awards when it was published 55 years ago. As the Â鶹´«Ã½ Book Club embarks on a reread, Emily H. Wilson looks at how it holds up
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Mathematics
This excellent guide to the science of uncertainty is very welcome
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Technology
Brilliant sci-fi novel shows robots coming to grips with emancipation
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Health
Signs of Terry Pratchett’s dementia may have been hidden in his books
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Space
Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Helios, Luke Jerram’s giant sun sculpture
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