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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Jamie Bartlett’s insightful How to Talk to AI
The books, TV, games and more that Â鶹´«Ã½ staff have enjoyed this week
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Technology
Two excellent new sci-fi novels tackle robots in very different ways
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Life
What to read this week: Beyond Inheritance by Roxanne Khamsi
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Why The Double Helix is such an extraordinary but infuriating book
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Life
What to read this week: Lixing Sun’s ambitious On the Origin of Sex
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Mind
Michael Pollan: ‘Consciousness is really under siege’
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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends the engaging Native Nations by Kathleen DuVal
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The best new popular science books of April 2026
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The best new science-fiction books of April 2026
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Author of Red Mars calls ‘bullshit’ on emigrating to the planet
Kim Stanley Robinson opens his classic science fiction novel Red Mars in 2026. As the Â鶹´«Ã½ Book Club embarks on reading it in April, he looks back on its origins – and how the idea of moving to Mars holds up today
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Space
Read an extract from Kim Stanley Robinson’s sci-fi classic Red Mars
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Our verdict on Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt: An inspiring call to action
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Life
What to read this week: the persuasive How Flowers Made Our World
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The Selfish Gene: Still one of the most thrilling evolution books ever
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