1 August 2025
The ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club has just finished reading Adam Roberts's novel Lake of Darkness. Some of us loved it – but some of us weren't so sure about this far-future set slice of hard science fiction
1 August 2025
Alex Foster, the author of the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, Circular Motion, on imagining a world that is spinning ever faster
1 August 2025
In this passage from the opening of Circular Motion, the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, our protagonist boards a vessel which can circle the world in a matter of hours – with dangerous consequences for the Earth’s rotation
31 July 2025
From a fresh take on Stephen King’s The Stand to a new novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky set on a poisoned world, August has a bumper crop of new science fiction novels
23 July 2025
Mountaineering Women: Climbing through history tells the stories of more than a dozen female climbers who have conquered the world's greatest peaks
18 July 2025
Adam Roberts' Lake of Darkness sets out to be a utopia novel, but it could have easily been called Space Satan instead
15 July 2025
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27 June 2025
Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club's take on our latest read, a time-travelling romance
27 June 2025
In this passage from near the opening of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, we are given an insight into how deep-space travel works in Adam Roberts’s universe
27 June 2025
The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, on why, in a world awash with fictional dystopias, he set out to write the opposite
