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The Dispossessed takes place on the twin worlds of Anarres and Urras

Space

Read an extract from The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic novel The Dispossessed. In this extract from its opening, we get our first glimpse of the planet Anarres

Culture

Holy Mary on window Statuette of Holy Mary and vase with plastic flowers in window on a house with bright pink walls, Irish cottage, Ireland

Humans

Alice Roberts investigates the unstoppable rise of Christianity

Culture

BOXBERG, GERMANY - MARCH 17: Boxberg Power Station is seen during sunset on March 17, 2016 in Boxberg, Germany. This lignite-fired power station is the second largest in Germany. (Photo by Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images)

Environment

New book about the story of carbon dioxide is a rousing call to action

Culture

The New Scientist Book Club has just read Adam Roberts's Lake of Darkness

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Our verdict on Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts: A mixed bag

Culture

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What would it feel like to be on a planet spinning out of control?

Culture

Environment

Read an extract from Alex Foster’s sci-fi novel Circular Motion

Culture

Black hole illustrating Adam Roberts book Lake of Darkness

Video

Adam Roberts's Lake of Darkness is a quest to understand utopia itself

Video

The Ministry of Time and Kaliane Bradley comp

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Our verdict on The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley: A thumbs up

Culture

Lake of Darkness book cover

Space

Read an extract from Adam Roberts’s far future-set Lake of Darkness

Culture

JHP71X A black hole is an object so compact - usually a collapsed star - that nothing can escape its gravitational pull. Not even light.

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Why Adam Roberts set out to write a sci-fi utopia, not a dystopia

The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on why, in a world awash with fictional dystopias, he set out to write the opposite

Culture

Video

How doomed Arctic explorer inspired sci-fi romantic thriller novel

Video

Physics

Fabulous time travel novel is part-thriller and part-romance

Culture

Physics

Ambitious book on quantum physics still fails to be accessible

Culture

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Our verdict on Ringworld by Larry Niven: Nice maths, shame about Teela

Culture

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