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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 ��˲�Ʊ Book Club's take on our latest read, a time-travelling romance

Read an extract from Adam Roberts’s far future-set Lake of Darkness

27 June 2025

In this passage from near the opening of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the ��˲�Ʊ Book Club, we are given an insight into how deep-space travel works in Adam Roberts’s universe

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Why Adam Roberts set out to write a sci-fi utopia, not a dystopia

27 June 2025

The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the ��˲�Ʊ Book Club, on why, in a world awash with fictional dystopias, he set out to write the opposite

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Fabulous time travel novel is part-thriller and part-romance

11 June 2025

In Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time, a young woman must help a naval commander snatched from death in 1847 adapt to the 21st century. Time travel thriller meets romance in this excellent novel

Dane physicist Niels Bohr, pictured in his laboratory, received the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the structure of atoms.

Ambitious book on quantum physics still fails to be accessible

4 June 2025

A new book on quantum physics is pleasingly full of cutting-edge topics. Yet it isn't the accessible work it promised to be

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

30 May 2025

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the ��˲�Ʊ Book Club’s thoughts on our latest read, the science fiction classic Ringworld by Larry Niven

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Read an extract from time-travel novel The Ministry of Time

30 May 2025

In this short extract from Kaliane Bradley's sci-fi novel, her protagonist makes a startling discovery about the nature of time

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'Time travel was just a metaphor for controlling a narrative'

30 May 2025

The Ministry of Time author Kaliane Bradley on how she made time travel work in her bestselling novel, the latest pick for the ��˲�Ʊ Book Club

2H2R3TY Larry Niven attends The 36th and 37th Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards Gala at Taglyan Complex, Los Angeles, CA on October 22, 2021

An interview with Larry Niven – Ringworld author and sci-fi legend

16 May 2025

The author of Ringworld, the latest read for the ��˲�Ʊ Book Club, is quizzed on everything from if he’d like to meet an alien to the art of writing

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