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Read an extract from Alex Foster’s sci-fi novel Circular Motion

In this passage from the opening of Circular Motion, the latest read for the 51�� Book Club, our protagonist boards a vessel which can circle the world in a matter of hours – with dangerous consequences for the Earth’s rotation

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Black hole illustrating Adam Roberts book Lake of Darkness

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Adam Roberts's Lake of Darkness is a quest to understand utopia itself

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The Ministry of Time and Kaliane Bradley comp

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Our verdict on The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley: A thumbs up

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Lake of Darkness book cover

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Read an extract from Adam Roberts’s far future-set Lake of Darkness

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JHP71X A black hole is an object so compact - usually a collapsed star - that nothing can escape its gravitational pull. Not even light.

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Why Adam Roberts set out to write a sci-fi utopia, not a dystopia

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Royal Navy officer and Polar explorer Graham Gore (c1808-1847) in 1845.

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How doomed Arctic explorer inspired sci-fi romantic thriller novel

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2M7PPCR HMS EREBUS trapped in the ice in 1846 during the third Franklin expedition to find a Northwest Passage .Painting byFrancois Musin about 1850

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Fabulous time travel novel is part-thriller and part-romance

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Dane physicist Niels Bohr, pictured in his laboratory, received the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the structure of atoms.

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Ambitious book on quantum physics still fails to be accessible

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Our verdict on Ringworld by Larry Niven: Nice maths, shame about Teela

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Our verdict on Ringworld by Larry Niven: Nice maths, shame about Teela

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Read an extract from time-travel novel The Ministry of Time

In this short extract from Kaliane Bradley's sci-fi novel, her protagonist makes a startling discovery about the nature of time

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'Time travel was just a metaphor for controlling a narrative'

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This sci-fi debut is a quietly brilliant look at a disturbing future

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

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

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