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The best new science fiction books of May 2026

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The best new science fiction books of May 2026

New science fiction from big names including Ann Leckie, Alan Moore and Martha Wells are just some of the exciting crop of titles out this month

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Ann Leckie continues to shine with new sci-fi novel Radiant Star

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What to read this week: The 21st Century Brain by Hannah Critchlow

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Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles

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Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles

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USA. Arizona. 1988. Pom Pom girls of Sun City West retirement community, the youngest of which is sixty years old. Part of the

Health

Can you slow ageing with your diet? A new book gives it a go

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Fermat's Last Theorem: still a must-read about a 350-year maths secret

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Fermat's Last Theorem: still a must-read about a 350-year maths secret

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Antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Andes. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two companion galaxies to our own Milky Way galaxy, can be seen as bright smudges in the night sky, in the centre of the photograph.

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What to read this week: Emma Chapman's mind-expanding Radio Universe

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How To Talk to AI

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New ��˾þ� recommends Jamie Bartlett's insightful How to Talk to AI

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

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Life

What to read this week: Beyond Inheritance by Roxanne Khamsi

A fresh and important book reveals the messy reality of our ever-mutating cells – and why the quest to defeat ageing is futile, says Michael Le Page

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Why The Double Helix is such an extraordinary but infuriating book

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Environment

The Iran war is exposing the huge risks in our food system

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What to read this week: Lixing Sun's ambitious On the Origin of Sex

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Mind

Michael Pollan: 'Consciousness is really under siege'

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