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Alice Roberts investigates the unstoppable rise of Christianity

Why did Christianity grow from a niche sect to a religion followed by billions? Michael Marshall explores Alice Roberts’s latest book Domination

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BOXBERG, GERMANY - MARCH 17: Boxberg Power Station is seen during sunset on March 17, 2016 in Boxberg, Germany. This lignite-fired power station is the second largest in Germany. (Photo by Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images)

Environment

New book about the story of carbon dioxide is a rousing call to action

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The ��è��Ƶ Book Club has just read Adam Roberts's Lake of Darkness

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Our verdict on Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts: A mixed bag

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What would it feel like to be on a planet spinning out of control?

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Environment

Read an extract from Alex Foster’s sci-fi novel Circular Motion

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Black hole illustrating Adam Roberts book Lake of Darkness

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Adam Roberts's Lake of Darkness is a quest to understand utopia itself

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The Ministry of Time and Kaliane Bradley comp

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Our verdict on The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley: A thumbs up

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Space

Read an extract from Adam Roberts’s far future-set Lake of Darkness

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JHP71X A black hole is an object so compact - usually a collapsed star - that nothing can escape its gravitational pull. Not even light.

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Why Adam Roberts set out to write a sci-fi utopia, not a dystopia

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Royal Navy officer and Polar explorer Graham Gore (c1808-1847) in 1845.

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How doomed Arctic explorer inspired sci-fi romantic thriller novel

Author Kaliane Bradley delves into the making of her best-selling novel The Ministry of Time

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Physics

Fabulous time travel novel is part-thriller and part-romance

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Physics

Ambitious book on quantum physics still fails to be accessible

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Our verdict on Ringworld by Larry Niven: Nice maths, shame about Teela

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Physics

Read an extract from time-travel novel The Ministry of Time

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