1 August 2025
In this passage from the opening of Circular Motion, the latest read for the ˲Ʊ 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
28 February 2025
In this passage from Dengue Boy, the latest read for the ˲Ʊ Book Club, we get an insight into life for Michel Nieva’s mosquito protagonist – and the drowned future world she inhabits
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
2 August 2023
The Pod author on why she decided to write a story that initially felt too daunting, how she put together a scene she pondered calling “oceanic sex rave”, and why we should all care more about the treatment of our oceans
22 March 2022
Around the world, human-animal conflict is rife in our cities. Yet despite the problems some animals cause, we can't help but love them.
20 April 2016
The Mind Club is a witty, insightful guide to other minds, rounded off with smart thinking about thinking in an age of neuroscience
5 June 2013
In Arming Mother Nature, Jacob Darwin Hamblin argues that environmentalism is rooted in cold war plans to abuse nature for military ends
