Earth
Forget Hollywood, science has real plans to defend us from asteroids
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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!
Environment
Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower
Culture
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N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower
Culture
Free
Video
Tade Thompson: 'It's like the internet, but for aliens'
Video
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Imagining Nigeria as ground zero in an alien invasion
Culture
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Space
Read an extract from Tade Thompson’s science fiction novel Rosewater
Culture
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Technology
The best science fiction books of 2024 so far
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The best science non-fiction books of 2024 so far
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The best new science fiction books of July 2024
Culture
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Matt Parker's comic look at trigonometry is a bit heavy on the maths
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A powerful new book shows why it's so important to understand war
Culture
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Save the planet, release your inner wild, urges a passionate new book
Culture
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