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The New Scientist 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

The New Scientist Book Club has just finished reading Adam Roberts's novel Lake of Darkness. Some of us loved it – but some of us weren't so sure about this far-future set slice of hard science fiction

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

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

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In The End of the World As We Know It, other writers are telling stories set in the post-apocalyptic world of Stephen King's The Stand

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The best new science fiction books of August 2025

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Extra-hard hexagonal diamonds can now be grown in a lab

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2JHN167 HUGH JACKMAN, THE PRESTIGE, 2006

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The Prestige is just as clever and thrilling 30 years on

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2JD8W56 ALICIA VIKANDER, EX MACHINA, 2014,

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Fictional female robots have a long history, and it's often quite dark

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The greatest robot of all time? The cooker on the moon, from A Grand Day Out

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The 25 best fictional robots – according to New Scientist

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New book is an illuminating but flawed look at the impact of emoji

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TOPSHOT - A prong extending from the CIRA-03 remote-controlled robot prototype approaches the mouth of a volunteer to extract a throat swab sample, as part of a self-funded project to assist physicians in running tests on suspected COVID-19 coronavirus patients in a bid to limit human exposure to disease-carriers, at a private hospital in Egypt's Nile delta city of Tanta, on March 20, 2021. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP) (Photo by KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Can amazing tech reboot healthcare? A new book explores the future

Lara Lewington's Hacking Humanity looks at the fabulous technology that is changing healthcare. But where is the critical analysis?

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Built-in fire extinguishers can prevent battery explosions

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Which sci-fi movies predicted the future accurately?

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Foundation's new season has dramatic potential – but sadly falls flat

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Provocative new book says we must persuade people to have more babies

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