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The best popular science books of 2025 so far

The downsides of diagnosis and an epic trek following a Slovenian wolf are among our culture editor's top popular science books of the year to date, featuring a range of authors from Robert MacFarlane to Suzanne O'Sullivan

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The best science fiction books of 2025 so far

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Hal LaCroix's Here and Beyond takes place on a spaceship journeying for centuries to a new planet

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The best new science fiction books of July 2025

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The best new science fiction books of June 2025

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��鶹��Ƶ recommends Colum McCann's new novel Twist

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Technology

This new book is a one-sided attempt to puncture the AI bubble

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Sci-fi books, Culture - 2025

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Our favourite science fiction books of all time (the ones we forgot)

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Health

An expert's new book unravels the amazing secrets of the vagus nerve

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The best new science fiction books of May 2025

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This sensational novel shows what climate fiction can be

It can be difficult to work out which books count as climate fiction. Emily H. Wilson reads the shortlist for the Climate Fiction prize – and discovers Roz Dineen's powerful novel Briefly Very Beautiful

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Reading for pleasure has plummeted over the past 20 years

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��鶹��Ƶ recommends David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires

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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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