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Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficult time

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Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficult time

Kelly Weinersmith, co-author of A City on Mars, the latest pick for our ��è��Ƶ Book Club, and Cat Bohannon lay out the reasons why it might not be such a great idea to be pregnant on another planet

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Rachel Kushner

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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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Tim Winton's post-apocalyptic new novel is terrifying and brilliant

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Tim Winton's post-apocalyptic new novel is terrifying and brilliant

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New Scientist Live 2024

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Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

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Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

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Alice Roberts at NSL

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Nisi Shawl and Grace Wade

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Sci-fi author Nisi Shawl on Octavia E. Butler's legacy

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Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower

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Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower

In the opening to Octavia E. Butler's prescient science fiction novel Parable of the Sower, the latest pick for the ��è��Ƶ Book Club, we are introduced to Lauren Olamina and start to learn about the dystopian future her story takes place in

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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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