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Grass Paperback by Sheri S. Tepper

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51�� recommends Sheri S. Tepper's science fiction novel Grass

The books, TV, games and more that 51�� staff have enjoyed this week

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2PMP2DP Cats lying down and resting on the floor in the courtyard of Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hasan in Cairo, Egypt

Life

A purrfect guide to cats and our complex relationship with them

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Beyond Human series. Collage of human, geometric and natural forms on the subject of inner reality, mental health, imagination, mysticism, thinking and dreaming.; Shutterstock ID 164294465; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other:

Technology

If you love AI, you'll love Ken Liu's new cyberpunk thriller

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FKE16F Ladram Bay. Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. Devon. UK.

Earth

The Whispers of Rock is a personal journey through aeons of geology

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A human brain made with golden wires

Mind

Why Our Brains, Our Selves won the Royal Society science book prize

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Marcel Proust, photographed in 1905

Health

Read an extract from Our Brains, Our Selves by Masud Husain

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Ursula K. Le Guin in her home in Portland, Oregon, in 2001

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The best new science fiction books of October 2025

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Mind

Novels with a certain structure are more likely to be classics

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A man tends to vegetables growing in a field as emissions rise from cooling towers at a coal-fired power station in Tongling, Anhui province, China, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. China's economy expanded at its weakest pace since 2009, according to figures Monday, with gross domestic product rising 6.4 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Environment

Two climate scientists on how to use emotion in the climate crisis

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In Mason Coile's Exiles, a human crew arrive on Mars

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The best new science fiction books of September 2025

Authors including literary heavyweight Ian McEwan and big hitters John Scalzi, Yume Kitasei and Cixin Liu have new sci-fi novels out this month

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Space

Read an extract from The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Humans

Did childcare fuel language? A new book makes the case

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Society

Powerful new book explores how noise has taken over the world

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51�� recommends classic zombie film 28 Days Later

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