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Doctor Who: Worlds of Wonder review: The science behind the show

1 June 2022

A mind-expanding new exhibition in Liverpool, UK, sets out to explore how science has influenced the making of Doctor Who


Sea of Tranquility review: A disturbing tale of time travel

Sea of Tranquility review: A disturbing tale of time travel

20 April 2022

The new science fiction novel from Station Eleven's author is mostly set centuries into the future – but also contains scary glimpses of a pandemic-strewn past


How to Mars review: Sci-fi satire about reality TV on the Red Planet

How to Mars review: Sci-fi satire about reality TV on the Red Planet

4 August 2021

How to Mars by David Ebenbach is an amusing novel about a failed attempt at reality TV on Mars. It is a new twist on the genre, says Clare Wilson


Dressed in a spacesuit which is a replica of the one worn by Tim Peake on his mission to the International Space Station

Project Hail Mary review: Andy Weir conjures a new tale of space peril

15 May 2021

In the latest sci-fi novel from The Martian author, Andy Weir, an unlikely duo battle to avert the decline of our sun (and the collapse of life on Earth)


Shards of Earth review: A rip-roaring space opera with a psychic twist

Shards of Earth review: A rip-roaring space opera with a psychic twist

12 May 2021

Shards of Earth is the first part of Adrian Tchaikovsky's new space opera, featuring starship battles, godlike entities the size of moons and a hidden dimension with freakish psychological properties, says Clare Wilson


The Preserve review: The inner struggle to survive in a robot world

The Preserve review: The inner struggle to survive in a robot world

9 December 2020

How do humans feel living in a world where robots outperform them, asks The Preserve by Ariel S. Winter. Clare Wilson says it's a great thought experiment


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