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Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

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 ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, we meet undercover operative Sadie Smith as she secretly reads the emails of an eco-activist group
Nisi Shawl and Grace Wade

Sci-fi author Nisi Shawl on Octavia E. Butler's legacy

27 September 2024

The ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ 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

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 ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, we are introduced to Lauren Olamina and start to learn about the dystopian future her story takes place in
N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower

N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower

30 August 2024

The Hugo award-winning author explains how she finally got to grips with Octavia E. Butler's dystopian novel, the latest pick for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, on a third read
Tade Thompson

Tade Thompson: 'It's like the internet, but for aliens'

9 August 2024

Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Tade Thompson, author of science fiction novel Rosewater, the latest pick for our ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, answers all of our most burning questions about his near-future story of alien invasion
Imagining Nigeria as ground zero in an alien invasion

Imagining Nigeria as ground zero in an alien invasion

5 July 2024

Tade Thompson, author of sci-fi novel Rosewater, the latest pick for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, on subverting the expectations of invasion narratives and writing about people not tech
Read an extract from Tade Thompson’s science fiction novel Rosewater

Read an extract from Tade Thompson’s science fiction novel Rosewater

5 July 2024

In this tantalising extract from Tade Thompson’s novel Rosewater, the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, we meet Kaaro and learn about the psychic powers he has had since an alien invasion
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The best science fiction books of 2024 so far

3 July 2024

From a quantum-bubble reality show from Peng Shepherd to a murderous valet bot from Adrian Tchaikovsky, enjoy this year's best science fiction so far if you're heading off on your travels, says Emily H. Wilson
A man is lying in a hammock in the sun, he is reading a book on his digital tablet. The hammock is hanging in a beautiful green forest in Sweden.

The best science non-fiction books of 2024 so far

3 July 2024

Want to save our seas? Make exotic cocktails? Ponder life's meaning? Whatever your plans this July, Simon Ings rounds up the year's best non-fiction so far
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Matt Parker's comic look at trigonometry is a bit heavy on the maths

26 June 2024

Stand-up mathematician Matt Parker's Love Triangle is fast-paced, with nuggets about everything from impossible soccer balls to duck wakes. But it doesn't leave our reviewer understanding trigonometry any better

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