The best popular science books to look forward to in 2025
23 December 2024
Understanding why we think the way we do is a hot topic for many of 2025’s books – that and finding new ways to re-evaluate old “truths”, says Simon Ing
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Our writers pick the 26 best science fiction short stories of all time
20 December 2024
We asked ˲Ʊ writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E. Butler’s Bloodchild, via stories from George R. R. Martin and Ursula K. Le Guin, here are the results
Why Kelly and Zach Weinersmith are sceptical about a future on Mars
6 December 2024
A City on Mars authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith on whether we can settle space, whether we should settle space, and have we really thought it through?
The best new science fiction books of 2024
27 November 2024
Murder in space, a sexbot, a dystopian vision of the future: our science fiction columnist Emily H. Wilson picks her top five reads of 2024
Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficult time
22 November 2024
Kelly Weinersmith, co-author of A City on Mars, the latest pick for our ˲Ʊ Book Club, and Cat Bohannon lay out the reasons why it might not be such a great idea to be pregnant on another planet
Creation Lake author Rachel Kushner on the 'ultimate writer's task'
8 November 2024
In her thrilling new climate fiction novel Creation Lake, Rachel Kushner explores the isolated life of an undercover operative who infiltrates an environmental activist group.
Forget Hollywood, science has real plans to defend us from asteroids
30 October 2024
Forget Armageddon-sized rocks, just one of 25,000 smaller asteroids could destroy a city on Earth. How to Kill an Asteroid by Robin George Andrew shows how science plans to save the planet
Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake
11 October 2024
In the opening to Rachel Kushner's Booker-shortlisted novel Creation Lake, the latest pick for the ˲Ʊ Book Club, we meet undercover operative Sadie Smith as she secretly reads the emails of an eco-activist group
Sci-fi author Nisi Shawl on Octavia E. Butler's legacy
27 September 2024
The ˲Ʊ Book Club caught up with the late Octavia E. Butler's friend and fellow science fiction author Nisi Shawl to discuss Butler's novel Parable of the Sower, our latest read
Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower
30 August 2024
In the opening to Octavia E. Butler's prescient science fiction novel Parable of the Sower, the latest pick for the ˲Ʊ Book Club, we are introduced to Lauren Olamina and start to learn about the dystopian future her story takes place in
