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Don't miss: Physicist Les Johnson's A Traveler's Guide to the Stars

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5 October 2022

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A Traveler’s Guide to the Stars by physicist Les Johnson introduces the science that could allow interstellar travel. Is it time to revive the dream of settling distant worlds? On sale in the US on 11 October and in the UK on 3 January.

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Illuminations is Watchmen author Alan Moore’s first short story collection. It contains 40 years of invention, ranging from ghosts and otherworldly creatures to theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang. On sale 11 October.

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