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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 ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club's take on our latest read, a time-travelling romance


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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


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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 ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ 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


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


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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 ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club


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

16 May 2025

The author of Ringworld, the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ 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

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


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