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Robert Macfarlane is wrong to cast rivers as life forms in new book
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An elegant account of how one ancient language went global
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New Scientist recommends Secrets of the Thames mudlarking exhibition
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Inside the outlandish, futuristic dreams of the tech bros
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Why saying no is so hard and what we can do about it
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New Scientist recommends David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires
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Black Mirror returns full of delights and disappointments
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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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Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic
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Speculative novel layers Groundhog Day with existential dreaminess
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New Scientist recommends The Martian – sci-fi fun for all the family
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