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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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Save the planet, release your inner wild, urges a passionate new book

Meet Craig Foster, from the Oscar-winning documentary My Octopus Teacher, who thinks we should reconnect with nature by plunging into icy waters or scanning remote landscapes

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Léa Seydoux and George MacKay dazzle in shocking sci-fi film The Beast

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Janus Films handout film still: THE BEAST Directed by Bertrand Bonello. The year is 2044: artificial intelligence controls all facets of a stoic society as humans routinely ?erase? their feelings. Hoping to eliminate pain caused by their past-life romances, Gabrielle (Le?a Seydoux) continually falls in love with different incarnations of Louis (George MacKay).

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New book explores how games shape the world – for better or for worse

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Engaging new book explores how vital mathematics is to map-making

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

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

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Michael Crichton and James Patterson's novel Eruption fails to thrill

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How to take on AI's challenge to ideas about what can be conscious

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Nemonte Nenquimo, Waorani leader from the Ecuadorian Amazon alongside other members of the Indigenous-led Ceibo Alliance.

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Amazonian activist Nemonte Nenquimo tells her story in a potent memoir

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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Ray Kurzweil and other experts clash over AI’s future in new books

To understand the power – and limitations – of artificial intelligence, we need information, not hype. Alex Wilkins explores what four new books, from Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom, Neil Lawrence and Shannon Vallor, offer

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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Personnel of the World class Danish restaurant Noma works in the kichten on May 31, 2021 in Copenhagen. - While the six-month Covid-19 closure has been tough for Noma, consistently ranked as one of the world's top restaurants, it's also been an opportunity to reinvent its cuisine. As it reopened this June, the restaurant has reworked its menu -- in part to take the lack of foreign tourists into account. (Photo by Thibault Savary / AFP) (Photo by THIBAULT SAVARY/AFP via Getty Images)

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Arielle Johnson digs into the science of flavour in her tasty new book

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Annie Jacobsen: Everything I learned about nuclear war shocked me

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