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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

We asked 51�� staff to pick their favourite science fiction books. Here are the results, ranging from 19th-century classics to modern day offerings, and from Octavia E. Butler to Iain M. Banks

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Humanoid robots facing each other, illustration

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Ray Kurzweil and other experts clash over AI’s future in new books

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Nicki Minaj???s iconic Barbie pendant???which boasts 54.47 carats of diamonds on 18-karat gold and bright Barbie-pink enamel???was made by Ashna Mehta in 2022 and is the most recent commissioned by Minaj, whose first Barbie pendant dates to 2009.

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51�� recommends Ice Cold: An exhibition of hip-hop jewelry

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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USA. Nevada. Las Vegas airport. 1982

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New psychology book reckons with separating solitude from loneliness

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Personnel of the World class Danish restaurant Noma works in the kichten on May 31, 2021 in Copenhagen. - While the six-month Covid-19 closure has been tough for Noma, consistently ranked as one of the world's top restaurants, it's also been an opportunity to reinvent its cuisine. As it reopened this June, the restaurant has reworked its menu -- in part to take the lack of foreign tourists into account. (Photo by Thibault Savary / AFP) (Photo by THIBAULT SAVARY/AFP via Getty Images)

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Arielle Johnson digs into the science of flavour in her tasty new book

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Sting film still (2024)

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Darkly comic sci-fi chiller sees a pet spider turn fast-growing hunter

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Male artist, painting a new creative painting in his art studio

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Creativity's origins are probably too complex for simple explanations

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MINING - West Pole Beacon.

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The man transforming data from two dramatic storms into music

Craig Kirkpatrick-Whitby's cancer diagnosis added urgency to his project, as part of musical collective Mining, to turn weather and sea data into music

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Why a new literary prize for climate fiction will make a difference

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Attenborough dominates our pick of 2024's best documentaries to date

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Annie Jacobsen: Everything I learned about nuclear war shocked me

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The hunt for alien planets and extraterrestrial life

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