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What would it feel like to be on a planet spinning out of control?

1 August 2025

Alex Foster, the author of the latest read for the ��˲�Ʊ Book Club, Circular Motion, on imagining a world that is spinning ever faster

Read an extract from Alex Foster’s sci-fi novel Circular Motion

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

In The End of the World As We Know It, other writers are telling stories set in the post-apocalyptic world of Stephen King's The Stand

The best new science fiction books of August 2025

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

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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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

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The best new science fiction books of May 2025

1 May 2025

May’s new science fiction novels include a hot tip from our culture editor, as well as war on an alien planet from Bora Chung

The best new science fiction books of April 2025

2 April 2025

From robot rights to ageing and climate change, this month’s science fiction squares up to the big topics, with new titles from authors including Nick Harkaway and Eve Smith