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2H2R3TY Larry Niven attends The 36th and 37th Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards Gala at Taglyan Complex, Los Angeles, CA on October 22, 2021

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An interview with Larry Niven – Ringworld author and sci-fi legend

The author of Ringworld, the latest read for the 51¶¯Âþ Book Club, is quizzed on everything from if he’d like to meet an alien to the art of writing

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Life

Grisly new book reveals what zombie insects can teach us

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EWXH9C THE MARTIAN (2015) MATT DAMON RIDLEY SCOTT (DIR)

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A doe-eyed look at space exploration is inadequate for the zeitgeist

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H7X53M Los Cedros River, Cotacachi-Cayapas Reserve, Ecuador

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Robert Macfarlane is wrong to cast rivers as life forms in new book

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Egret Take off at Pallikaranai Marsh, Chennai, India

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Chronicling nature activism in a coastal corner of India

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Book Club: Readers admit they weren’t impressed with our latest novel

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Book Club: Readers admit they weren’t impressed with our latest novel

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Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'

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Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'

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Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic

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Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic

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Michel Nieva on writing from a mosquito's perspective for Dengue Boy

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Michel Nieva on writing from a mosquito's perspective for Dengue Boy

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New Scientist recommends Weather Girl, an electrifying one-woman show

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51¶¯Âþ recommends Weather Girl, an electrifying one-woman show

Weather Girl, a play in London's Soho Theatre about a weather forecaster who finally snaps as the climate apocalypse looms, is frantic and funny

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Dancers float like jellyfish in the abyss in new Wayne McGregor show

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Read an extract from Michel Nieva’s science fiction novel Dengue Boy

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51¶¯Âþ Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as my hero

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Mind

Sci-fi thriller Dissolution smartly interweaves time travel and memory

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