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Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet

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Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet

Kim Stanley Robinson opens his classic science fiction novel Red Mars in 2026. As the New Scientist Book Club embarks on reading it in April, he looks back on its origins – and how the idea of moving to Mars holds up today

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Why Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars is still a classic, 34 years on

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Why Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars is still a classic, 34 years on

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Read an extract from Kim Stanley Robinson's sci-fi classic Red Mars

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Read an extract from Kim Stanley Robinson's sci-fi classic Red Mars

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Our verdict on Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt: An inspiring call to action

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Our verdict on Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt: An inspiring call to action

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Professor Daisy Fancourt on the life-changing power of the arts

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Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Martian - and it's fab

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Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Martian - and it's fab

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Our verdict on Juice by Tim Winton: Australian climate novel is a hit

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Our verdict on Juice by Tim Winton: Australian climate novel is a hit

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'If a drug had the same benefits as the arts, we’d take it every day'

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'If a drug had the same benefits as the arts, we’d take it every day'

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Read an extract from Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt

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Read an extract from Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt

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From images taken by NASA spacecrafts, this picture mosaic was created of six of the planets in our solar system and the Earth's moon. In the foreground is the Earth rising over the lunar surface with the sun flare at the edge of Earth. Venus is the first planet above the moon, and at the top left to right are the planets Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Saturn. Photo credits are as follows: Earth - Apollo 17; Lunar Surface - Apollo 8; Sun - Apollo 12; Venus - Pioneer Venus; Jupiter - Voyager I; Mercury - Mariner 10; Saturn - Pioneer 11.

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What to read this week: Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean by Dagomar Degroot

From ice ages to asteroid strikes, an epic book shows how important it has been for humans to look outwards. Alex Wilkins surveys a climate historian's cosmic sweep

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Return of Fallout, Paradise and Silo fuels passion for bunker sci-fi

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New Scientist recommends the quantum soundscape of Liminals

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Tim Winton on why he tackled climate change in his novel Juice

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What to read this week: Bonded by Evolution by Paul Eastwick

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