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
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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 ·ď»Ë˛ĘƱ Book Club, on the science behind his creation
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 ·ď»Ë˛ĘƱ Book Club, we meet Ringworld’s protagonist Louis Wu, as he travels a future Earth
The best popular science books to look forward to in 2025
23 December 2024
Understanding why we think the way we do is a hot topic for many of 2025’s books – that and finding new ways to re-evaluate old “truths”, says Simon Ing
Our writers pick the 26 best science fiction short stories of all time
20 December 2024
We asked ·ď»Ë˛ĘƱ writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E. Butler’s Bloodchild, via stories from George R. R. Martin and Ursula K. Le Guin, here are the results
The best new science fiction books of 2024
27 November 2024
Murder in space, a sexbot, a dystopian vision of the future: our science fiction columnist Emily H. Wilson picks her top five reads of 2024
Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficult time
22 November 2024
Kelly Weinersmith, co-author of A City on Mars, the latest pick for our ·ď»Ë˛ĘƱ Book Club, and Cat Bohannon lay out the reasons why it might not be such a great idea to be pregnant on another planet
Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake
11 October 2024
In the opening to Rachel Kushner's Booker-shortlisted novel Creation Lake, the latest pick for the ·ď»Ë˛ĘƱ Book Club, we meet undercover operative Sadie Smith as she secretly reads the emails of an eco-activist group
The best science non-fiction books of 2024 so far
3 July 2024
Want to save our seas? Make exotic cocktails? Ponder life's meaning? Whatever your plans this July, Simon Ings rounds up the year's best non-fiction so far
A powerful new book shows why it's so important to understand war
26 June 2024
In his latest book, Why War?, historian Richard Overy grapples with a question that stumped Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud – why do humans persist in waging war?
