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Kim Stanley Robinson and Red Mars book

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Author Kim Stanley Robinson revisits his vision of life on Mars

As our book club revisits Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson reflects on imagining a 2026 Mars mission — and how today’s colonisation plans and climate realities measure up.

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Nanodiamonds

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Diamonds are surprisingly elastic when you make them tiny

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Pet owner feeding his tabby cat.

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Tweaking the smell of cat food can encourage fussy felines to eat

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Sci-fi show The Miniature Wife underwhelms – despite the big names

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Sci-fi show The Miniature Wife underwhelms – despite the big names

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Two excellent new sci-fi novels tackle robots in very different ways

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Professor Sir John Pendry FRS, Chair in Theoretical Solid State Physics, Imperial College London, who has made seminal contributions to research in metamaterials and photonics, surface science, and disordered systems and localisation. Cloaking devices, perfect lenses and the super high-speed computer chips of the future are just some of the practical applications of Sir John's theoretical research.

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The invisibility cloak inventor now has better tricks up his sleeve

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The best new science-fiction books of April 2026

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The best new science-fiction books of April 2026

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Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet

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Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet

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Why Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars is still a classic, 34 years on

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Why Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars is still a classic, 34 years on

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Read an extract from Kim Stanley Robinson's sci-fi classic Red Mars

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Read an extract from Kim Stanley Robinson's sci-fi classic Red Mars

This is the opening of Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, the New ��˾þ� Book Club read for April, as humans come to the planet to settle it

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Adrian Tchaikovsky: 'I try and do interesting aliens'

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Rumours of a Firefly reboot abound, but should the Serenity fly again?

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New ��˾þ� recommends sci-fi novel Under the Eye of the Big Bird

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Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Martian - and it's fab

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