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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

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the book club’s thoughts on our latest read, the weird and wild Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva. Warning: spoilers ahead  

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

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

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New Scientist Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as my hero

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

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Couple waiting at airport Description Couple sitting, waiting at the airport behind small squared glass wall, evoking a mirage, memory and dreams in blue and grey tones. Zurich, Switzerland. 2009

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Sci-fi thriller Dissolution smartly interweaves time travel and memory

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Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Adrian Tchaikovsky talks aliens, entomology and new book 'Alien Clay'

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The story of ancient Mesopotamia and the dawn of the modern world

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Bill & Paul Allen at teletype machine, Lakeside yearbook photo (1969-1970)

Technology

Explore what shaped Bill Gates in part one of his autobiography

A driven teenager up nights working on computer schemes. Could this be Bill Gates? Chris Stokel-Walker reads the much anticipated story of the billionaires's early years, as told by the man himself

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Would we recognise alien intelligence, asks Adrian Tchaikovsky novel

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Adrian Tchaikovsky: "Could life have gone any other way?"

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Read an extract from Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay

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The best popular science books to look forward to in 2025

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