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The best new science fiction books of September 2024

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The best new science fiction books of September 2024

From Michel Houellebecq to Booker-longlisted Richard Powers and Rachel Kushner, there is plenty of excellent science fiction to read this September

Culture

Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower

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Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower

Culture

N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower

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N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower

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Space

SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew set to attempt the riskiest spacewalk yet

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Space

Stranded ISS astronauts reveal the US space programme is not in crisis

Analysis

Space

JWST found rogue worlds that blur the line between stars and planets

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How to temper chocolate

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How Great British Bake Off's Josh Smalley tempers chocolate

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Chandra X-ray Observatory

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Why we need to save the Chandra space telescope

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Chemistry

The science behind tempering chocolate

Regulars

Illustration of NASA's Europa Clipper passing Europa

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Sam Howell: ‘One day we might look for life directly on Europa’

Sam Howell tells 51¶¯Âþ why NASA is so keen to visit Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, Europa, and how the mission could help us figure out the likelihood of life elsewhere in the cosmos

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Space

Lightning can make energy waves that travel shockingly far into space

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Interstellar to Doctor Who: Sci-fi dramas getting science mostly right

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Physics

How Einstein was both right and wrong about gravitational waves

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Tade Thompson: 'It's like the internet, but for aliens'

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