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The ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club has just read Adam Roberts's Lake of Darkness

Our verdict on Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts: A mixed bag

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


The Ministry of Time and Kaliane Bradley comp

Our verdict on The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley: A thumbs up

27 June 2025

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club's take on our latest read, a time-travelling romance


Our verdict on Ringworld by Larry Niven: Nice maths, shame about Teela

Our verdict on Ringworld by Larry Niven: Nice maths, shame about Teela

30 May 2025

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club’s thoughts on our latest read, the science fiction classic Ringworld by Larry Niven


Sci-fi books, Culture - 2025

Our favourite science fiction books of all time (the ones we forgot)

9 May 2025

Following on from our first list, we asked ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ staff to pick even more of their favourite sci-fi books of all time. From Isaac Asimov and Ursula K. Le Guin to Star Wars – the list has it all this time, we hope…


Book Club: Readers admit they weren’t impressed with our latest novel

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'

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

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


Ringworld

Rereading the best sci-fi writers of all time: Larry Niven

9 April 2025

Larry Niven's Ringworld won him the Hugo and Nebula awards when it was published 55 years ago. As the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club embarks on a reread, Emily H. Wilson looks at how it holds up


Read an extract from Michel Nieva’s science fiction novel Dengue Boy

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

·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


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