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The best popular science books to look forward to in 2025
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New Scientist Book Club
Welcome to the New Scientist Book Club, a place to find out about the very best science and science fiction books out there, and to talk about them with your fellow book lovers. We’ll also be bringing you our authors’ own favourite reads, along with video interviews and extracts. Get all the details here, and then sign up here and join the discussion!
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The best new science fiction books of 2024
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Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficult time
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Creation Lake author Rachel Kushner on the 'ultimate writer's task'
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Forget Hollywood, science has real plans to defend us from asteroids
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Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake
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Sci-fi author Nisi Shawl on Octavia E. Butler's legacy
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Environment
Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower
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N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower
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Tade Thompson: 'It's like the internet, but for aliens'
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Imagining Nigeria as ground zero in an alien invasion
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Read an extract from Tade Thompson’s science fiction novel Rosewater
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