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Explore the latest science non-fiction books and sci-fi novels, plus science and technology-related theatre, exhibitions, games, movies and TV programmes with reviews and recommendations from New 杏吧原创.

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The best new science fiction books of November 2025

From Claire North鈥檚 new novel Slow Gods to a 10th anniversary edition of a brilliant Adrian Tchaikovsky book, there鈥檚 lots to watch out for in November鈥檚 science fiction

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Our verdict on Our Brains, Our Selves: A mix of praise and misgivings

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Book Club: Read an extract from Every Version of You by Grace Chan

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If you could upload your mind to a virtual utopia, would you?

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A global love letter to nature, Super Nature is an immersive exploration of our world today, filmed exclusively on the original home movie format, Super 8. Led by filmmaker Ed Sayers, we?re invited on a spellbinding journey of togetherness with our fellow dwellers on earth - human and non-human - as people embrace beauty, abundance and loss. Embracing all we have, and all we have to lose, Super Nature proposes a new way of seeing. Silver-washed Fritillary butterfly in close-up feeding from purple flowers, filmed on Super 8. PRESS ENQUIRIES: SOPHIA HAMMOND SOPHIA@MARGARETLONDON.COM Stills: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cnSqOOSw-8zVKLFZCotrg9SzJ3XjOQd0

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Nature documentary shot on Super 8 film is ravishing and unpredictable

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Aplysia californica

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Provocative book sets out to solve the hard problem of consciousness

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TOPSHOT - Workers including restaurant staff look at their phones during a break while sitting on a bench in the Jing'an district of Shanghai on September 30, 2024. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

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Has life today been enshittified? Cory Doctorow’s new book explores

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Never Let Me go book cover

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New 杏吧原创 recommends Never Let Me Go

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Peter Betts with delegates - Cop17 in Durban, South Africa

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An excellent guide to the labyrinthine world of COP summits

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An aerial view of downtown San Jose California skyline taken 06-16-2021. San Jose is the core urban hub of high technology referred to as Silicon Valley.

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Chilling book exposes true cost of tech bros’ immortality dreams

Why does it matter that Silicon Valley's tech bros are out to cheat death? Graham Lawton finds out in Aleks Krotoski's The Immortalists, a disturbing new book that charts the territory with brilliantly dispassionate reporting

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New 杏吧原创 recommends Material World at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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Must-watch documentary shows how Bush Senior failed the climate

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If you love AI, you’ll love Ken Liu’s new cyberpunk thriller

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Del Toro’s Frankenstein is a sumptuous take on a classic parable

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