New Scientist Book Club Recommendations

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Updated November 27, 2024
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A city on Mars : can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?
Weinersmith, Kelly
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 ONE OF THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW SCIENTIST BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF THE YEAR GUARDIAN BEST SCIENCE AND NATURE BOOK 2024 A HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST RELATED WORK 2024 ...
All systems red
Wells, Martha
Audiobook
All Systems Red is the first tense science fiction adventure novella in Martha Wells' series The Murderbot Diaries. For fans of Westworld and Ex Machina. All Systems Red by Martha Wells begins The Murderbot Diaries, a new science fiction action and adventure series that tackles questions of the...
Dengue boy
Nieva, Michel
Borges meets Isabel Waidner and Mariana Enriquez in this punk dystopia which introduces a bold, brilliant new voice from Argentina
Creation Lake
Kushner, Rachel.
Paper Book
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024** **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Imagine Slow Horses' Jackson Lamb in the body of Jodie Comer's character in Killing Eve' SUNDAY TIMES 'Compulsively readable... Kill Bill<...
Nuclear war : a scenario
Jacobsen, Annie
Paper Book
The Sunday Times bestselling edge-of-your-seat exploration of what would happen in the event of nuclear war, perfect for readers of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. *Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non...
In ascension
MacInnes, Martin
Paper Book
If Richard Powers had written Arrival, an astonishing novel that is set to break out Martin MacInnes as one of the most important literary voices of his generation
Julia
Newman, Sandra
Paper Book
Julia is a bold feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four that goes beyond Winston Smith's story to finally reveal what life in Oceania was like for women
Pod
Paull, Laline
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION, 2023'Knocked my socks off . . . it is set entirely in the ocean. It's not science fiction. It's realistic. It's set in the here and now . . . And it's fascinating' Barbara Kingsolver in the New York Times'A pacy, provocative tale...
The ferryman : a novel
Cronin, Justin
Paper Book
Alien clay
Tchaikovsky, Adrian
Paper Book
Alien Clay is a thrilling far-future adventure by acclaimed Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.'Unputdownable' - Stephen Baxter, author of Proxima They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . ...
The seventh son
Faulks, Sebastian
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMESBESTSELLER 'A genuinely thought-provoking piece of fiction' THE TIMES 'Extraordinary' WILLIAM BOYD 'Profoundly moving . . . a wonderful and life-affirming love story' JAMES HOLLAND 'His greatest novel yet<...

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