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In this extract from the classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet Ringworld’s ...
Larry Niven's Ringworld won him the Hugo and Nebula awards when it was published 55 years ago. As the New Scientist Book Club ...
The buddy cops format gets a twist in Spencer Quinn’s Chet and Burnie mystery series, where Chet the dog is the detective and ...
While many are genre-defining works, or at least have some brilliant moments, they’re all a little dry – or a little dated – ...
The Last of Us, Severance, The Walking Dead, BSG, and more - we explore AI overlords, lethal game shows, and mushroom ...
Many of the best science fiction movies of the 1970s were based on creative and fascinating novels by some of the genre's ...
They sought to lay claim to the knowledge of philosophy, technology, and medicine, sometimes referred to as the “science of the ... during the Islamic golden age. Averroës, author of some ...
For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?
PCHS Writes is designed to inspire more students to write and to write from their hearts instead of strictly within the walls of their required English classes. The club holds a short-story contest ...
in 1926 and coined the term "science fiction" itself in 1929. And once the Golden Age of science fiction had begun, tropes from the genre spread throughout our culture and took on a life of their own.
Milne’s prose is vivid and visceral; Geraldine speaks hard truths in vernacular that never minces her trauma and eventual ...
From The Substance to The Picture of Dorian Gray, author Eve Smith revisits some rejuvenation classics to ask: could the ...