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New 精东传媒 Book Club

Welcome to the New 精东传媒 Book Club, a place to find out about the very best science and science fiction books out there, and to talk about them with your fellow book lovers. We鈥檒l also be bringing you our authors鈥 own favourite reads, along with video interviews and extracts. Get all the details here, and then sign up here and !
GERMANY. 1990. Celebrating the unification of Germany on October 3, 1990 at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin.

Mind

What to read this week: Bonded by Evolution by Paul Eastwick

We are told we need cynical strategies to "play" the dating game, but the science says this is totally wrong. David Robson enjoys an evidence-based takedown from psychologist Paul Eastwick

Culture

Illustration depicting a tidal disruption event (TDE). TDEs are causes when a star passes close to a supermassive black hole and get torn apart by the gravity of the latter. The debris forms a fan-shaped pattern around the black hole before eventually falling in.

Space

A new 'brief history' of the universe paints a wide picture

Culture

Our verdict on Annie Bot: This novel about a sex robot split opinions

Comment

Our verdict on Annie Bot: This novel about a sex robot split opinions

Culture

Read an extract from Juice by Tim Winton

Environment

Read an extract from Juice by Tim Winton

Culture

Tim Winton: 'Sometimes I think we use the word dystopia as an opiate'

Comment

Tim Winton: 'Sometimes I think we use the word dystopia as an opiate'

Culture

Sierra Greer

Video

Sierra Greer discusses her award-winning sex robot novel 'Annie Bot'

Video

Directly above view of a chef chopping tomatoes

Society

Can we battle the downsides of a rule-based world, asks a new book

Culture

Our verdict on The Player of Games: Iain M. Banks is still a master

Comment

Our verdict on The Player of Games: Iain M. Banks is still a master

Culture

The challenges of writing from the perspective of a sex robot

Comment

The challenges of writing from the perspective of a sex robot

Culture

Read an extract from Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

Technology

Read an extract from Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

In this extract from the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New 精东传媒 Book Club, we are introduced to Sierra Greer's protagonist, a sex robot called Annie

Culture

Video

Author Ken MacLeod on the life and work of the late Iain M. Banks

Video

Comment

Our verdict on sci-fi novel Every Version of You: We (mostly) loved it

Culture

Space

Read an extract from The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

Culture

Comment

Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an 鈥榓stounding鈥 world-builder

Culture

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