Adam Roberts's Lake of Darkness is a quest to understand utopia itself
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
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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
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 ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, we are given an insight into how deep-space travel works in Adam Roberts’s universe
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 ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, on why, in a world awash with fictional dystopias, he set out to write the opposite
How doomed Arctic explorer inspired sci-fi romantic thriller novel
20 June 2025
Author Kaliane Bradley delves into the making of her best-selling novel The Ministry of Time
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
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 ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club’s thoughts on our latest read, the science fiction classic Ringworld by Larry Niven
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
'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 ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club
