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The book jacket of Slow Gods by Claire North

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Read an extract from Slow Gods by Claire North

The New Scientist Book Club’s read for July is Claire North’s space opera Slow Gods. In this extract from its second chapter, we learn about the upbringing of its protagonist on the planet Tu-mdo

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Why I started my sci-fi novel with a world-ending supernova

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Why I started my sci-fi novel with a world-ending supernova

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SELSEY, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 10: Workers from Chichester council clean spilt debris from a refrigeration container that fell from a tanker and washed ashore on the beach on December 10, 2025 in Selsey, England. A clean-up effort is underway to remove debris from England's southern coastline after sixteen containers carrying bananas and other fruit tipped off the Baltic Kipper cargo ship into the Solent strait between the Isle of Wight and British mainland. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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The best sci-fi novel in 2026 so far – plus 6 other great reads

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The lunar botanist with a plan to farm vegetables on the moon

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The lunar botanist with a plan to farm vegetables on the moon

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A spherical rocky body being destroyed in a collision.

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Hundreds of new moons are revealing our solar system's violent history

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How the electromagnetic spectrum opened our eyes to the universe

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The best new science-fiction books of June 2026

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The best new science-fiction books of June 2026

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Mars astronauts may do laundry by blasting clothes with a plasma beam

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How ageing on Earth mimics the effects of space travel

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The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

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The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

A decade ago, we discovered an exceptionally exciting exoplanet that could be the best candidate for hosting alien life. Now we’re about to find out if it really is

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Tiny 'metajets' could use light to steer sails for interstellar travel

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US government releases huge batch of UFO files

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The best new popular science books of May 2026

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

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