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Why I explore our inevitable love for robots in my novel Luminous

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Why I explore our inevitable love for robots in my novel Luminous

Silvia Park, author of the May read for the New Ů��С��Ƶ Book Club, reveals how a book that was originally intended to be for children took a darker route following a death in the family

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Read an extract from Luminous by Silvia Park

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Read an extract from Luminous by Silvia Park

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The best new science fiction books of May 2026

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The best new science fiction books of May 2026

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What to read this week: The 21st Century Brain by Hannah Critchlow

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Space

Ann Leckie continues to shine with new sci-fi novel Radiant Star

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Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles

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Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles

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USA. Arizona. 1988. Pom Pom girls of Sun City West retirement community, the youngest of which is sixty years old. Part of the

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Can you slow ageing with your diet? A new book gives it a go

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Fermat's Last Theorem: still a must-read about a 350-year maths secret

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Fermat's Last Theorem: still a must-read about a 350-year maths secret

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Antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Andes. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two companion galaxies to our own Milky Way galaxy, can be seen as bright smudges in the night sky, in the centre of the photograph.

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What to read this week: Emma Chapman's mind-expanding Radio Universe

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How To Talk to AI

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New Ů��С��Ƶ recommends Jamie Bartlett's insightful How to Talk to AI

The books, TV, games and more that New Ů��С��Ƶ staff have enjoyed this week

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Two excellent new sci-fi novels tackle robots in very different ways

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Life

What to read this week: Beyond Inheritance by Roxanne Khamsi

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Why The Double Helix is such an extraordinary but infuriating book

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What to read this week: Lixing Sun's ambitious On the Origin of Sex

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