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Explore the latest science non-fiction books and sci-fi novels, plus science and technology-related theatre, exhibitions, games, movies and TV programmes with reviews and recommendations from 51. Find out about and sign up to the 51 Book Club here.
HANDOUT:.. Adam (Faraz Ayub) in Moin Hussain's SKY PEALS

Space

Understated sci-fi drama traverses themes of immigration and identity

Moin Hussain's debut feature film Sky Peals sees a man discover his father may be from outer space. Part sci-fi, part family drama, part coming-of-age tale, it is odd and otherworldly

Culture

World Without End by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain

Environment

Bestselling graphic novel is a whistlestop tour of the climate crisis

Culture

Separating the

Mind

Separating the "woo" from the work of manifesting in two new books

Culture

Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

Humans

Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

Culture

How The Light Gets In festival press handout image.

Space

51 recommends HowTheLightGetsIn festival in London

Culture

GB. England. Bristol. 2021. Bristol Royal Infirmary. Martin Parr's cancer treatment. Chemotherapy transfusion.

Health

A sharp interrogation of why we retreat from other people's illnesses

Culture

P1MNB3 The spider-tailed horned viper (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides) is a species of viper endemic to western Iran which was described in 2006. The head look

Life

Richard Dawkins's latest crams gorgeous writing in an ill-fitting box

Culture

San Sebastian Film Festival handout picture: Bel Powley, Nick Robinson in Michael Tyburski's 'Turn Me On'.

Mind

Bel Powley is fabulous in this wonderful dystopian satire

Culture

Bill Gates in What?s Next: The Future with Bill Gates. Cr. Netflix ? 2024

Technology

Bill Gates's Netflix series offers some dubious ideas about the future

Culture

Cloud and trees reflections on river Wye with Black mountains background.

Life

It's time to celebrate a renaissance in English nature writing

Musing on John Lewis-Stempel's latest book, England: A natural history, James McConnachie marks the flowering of other, more diverse voices in nature writing

Culture

Space

51 recommends astronomy exhibition Borrowed Light in Berlin

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Comment

The best new science fiction books of October 2024

Culture

Video

Sci-fi author Nisi Shawl on Octavia E. Butler's legacy

Culture

Humans

Rachel Kushner’s Booker-shortlisted Creation Lake is top-notch

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