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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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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


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 ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, is quizzed on everything from if he’d like to meet an alien to the art of writing


These are the best new science fiction books to read this June 2024

These are the best new science fiction books to read this June 2024

6 June 2024

New books from Adrian Tchaikovsky and the late Michael Crichton (with James Patterson) are among the great new sci-fi novels out this month


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Why I explored the corrupting power of tech billionaires in The Future

5 January 2024

Naomi Alderman on the tech billionaires at the heart of her new novel The Future, the latest pick for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club – and the 1974 book that inspired her


Read an extract from The Future by Naomi Alderman

Read an extract from The Future by Naomi Alderman

5 January 2024

In this tantalising extract from Naomi Alderman's new novel The Future, the latest pick for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, a tech chief executive discovers the end of the world is nigh


Read an extract from Pod by Laline Paull

Read an extract from Pod by Laline Paull

7 July 2023

This intriguing extract is taken from Pod by Laline Paull, a novel told from the perspective of a spinner dolphin which is the latest pick for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club


Laline Paull on why she wrote Pod from the perspective of a dolphin

Laline Paull on why she wrote Pod from the perspective of a dolphin

7 July 2023

The author of the Women’s prize-shortlisted Pod reveals why she decided to write a story that initially felt too daunting – now the latest pick for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club


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