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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


2M7PPCR HMS EREBUS trapped in the ice in 1846 during the third Franklin expedition to find a Northwest Passage .Painting byFrancois Musin about 1850

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


Dane physicist Niels Bohr, pictured in his laboratory, received the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the structure of atoms.

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

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


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


Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic

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 ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, we meet Ringworld’s protagonist Louis Wu, as he travels a future Earth


Read an extract from Michel Nieva’s science fiction novel Dengue Boy

Read an extract from Michel Nieva’s science fiction novel Dengue Boy

28 February 2025

In this passage from Dengue Boy, the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, we get an insight into life for Michel Nieva’s mosquito protagonist – and the drowned future world she inhabits


·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as my hero

·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as my hero

28 February 2025

Michel Nieva, the author of the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, Dengue Boy, on his story of a drowned, pandemic-struck future Earth – and his unusual protagonist


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Adrian Tchaikovsky: "Could life have gone any other way?"

17 January 2025

The author of the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a prison planet where the biology is very different to that on Earth


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