An interview with Larry Niven – Ringworld author and sci-fi legend
16 May 2025
The author of Ringworld, the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, is quizzed on everything from if he’d like to meet an alien to the art of writing
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Book Club: Readers admit they weren’t impressed with our latest novel
11 April 2025
Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the book club’s thoughts on our latest read, the weird and wild Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva. Warning: spoilers ahead
Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'
11 April 2025
The author of the award-winning classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, on the science behind his creation
Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic
11 April 2025
In this extract from the classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, we meet Ringworld’s protagonist Louis Wu, as he travels a future Earth
Michel Nieva on writing from a mosquito's perspective for Dengue Boy
28 March 2025
"What will happen in South America when the billionaires colonise space?" asks Michel Nieva, author of 'Dengue Boy' a nightmarish future tale where a humanoid mosquito seeks revenge in the ruins of an exploited Earth
Read an extract from Michel Nieva’s science fiction novel Dengue Boy
28 February 2025
In this passage from Dengue Boy, the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, we get an insight into life for Michel Nieva’s mosquito protagonist – and the drowned future world she inhabits
·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as my hero
28 February 2025
Michel Nieva, the author of the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, Dengue Boy, on his story of a drowned, pandemic-struck future Earth – and his unusual protagonist
Adrian Tchaikovsky talks aliens, entomology and new book 'Alien Clay'
14 February 2025
Science fiction author Adrian Tchaikovsky on the science that inspires his novels, his distaste for "humanocentric" narratives and just how he is able to write so much
Adrian Tchaikovsky: "Could life have gone any other way?"
17 January 2025
The author of the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a prison planet where the biology is very different to that on Earth
Read an extract from Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay
17 January 2025
In the opening to Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel Alien Clay, the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, our hero wakes from years of space travel to a terrifying new reality
