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Following on from our first list, we asked New Scientist staff to pick even more of their favourite sci-fi books of all time.
Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another ...
May’s new science fiction novels include a hot tip from our culture editor, as well as war on an alien planet from Bora Chung ...
These books by Akwaeke Emezi, A.E. Osworth and Isaac Fellman demonstrate just how much genre fiction is capable of.
With a message that is timely and essential, Neil Shubin delivers a compendium of both historical and very recent scientific ...
These powerful behavioural science books challenge how you see decisions, beliefs, and morality — perfect for those who seek ...
In their new book, Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen survey flat Earth theory, fake moon landings and other scientific myths and why people believe them.
In his book Killed By A Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System, he digs into the standards that have dictated traffic design for decades to find out ...
From demon to danger noodle, human ideas about snakes can be as contradictory as the creatures themselves. In Slither, Stephen S. Hall challenges our serpent stereotypes.