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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

In Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time, a young woman must help a naval commander snatched from death in 1847 adapt to the 21st century. Time travel thriller meets romance in this excellent novel

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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

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

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Digital generated image of young woman standing on entrance of multicoloured portal door. Metaverse concept.

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

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2H2R3TY Larry Niven attends The 36th and 37th Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards Gala at Taglyan Complex, Los Angeles, CA on October 22, 2021

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

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Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'

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Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'

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Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic

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Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic

In this extract from the classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the New ��ý Book Club, we meet Ringworld’s protagonist Louis Wu, as he travels a future Earth

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Michel Nieva on writing from a mosquito's perspective for Dengue Boy

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Read an extract from Michel Nieva’s science fiction novel Dengue Boy

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New ��ý Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as my hero

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Adrian Tchaikovsky talks aliens, entomology and new book 'Alien Clay'

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