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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

We asked New 杏吧原创 staff to pick their favourite science fiction books. Here are the results, ranging from 19th-century classics to modern day offerings, and from Octavia E. Butler to Iain M. Banks

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Humanoid robots facing each other, illustration

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Ray Kurzweil and other experts clash over AI鈥檚 future in new books

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Nicki Minaj???s iconic Barbie pendant???which boasts 54.47 carats of diamonds on 18-karat gold and bright Barbie-pink enamel???was made by Ashna Mehta in 2022 and is the most recent commissioned by Minaj, whose first Barbie pendant dates to 2009.

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New 杏吧原创 recommends Ice Cold: An exhibition of hip-hop jewelry

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Aqua: Biodiversity in the Oceans

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Relax with Aqua, a colourful board game about building coral reefs

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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USA. Nevada. Las Vegas airport. 1982

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New psychology book reckons with separating solitude from loneliness

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Personnel of the World class Danish restaurant Noma works in the kichten on May 31, 2021 in Copenhagen. - While the six-month Covid-19 closure has been tough for Noma, consistently ranked as one of the world's top restaurants, it's also been an opportunity to reinvent its cuisine. As it reopened this June, the restaurant has reworked its menu -- in part to take the lack of foreign tourists into account. (Photo by Thibault Savary / AFP) (Photo by THIBAULT SAVARY/AFP via Getty Images)

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Arielle Johnson digs into the science of flavour in her tasty new book

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Michael Sheen 'Nye' - National Theatre

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New 杏吧原创 recommends Michael Sheen in play about the NHS’s origins

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Sting film still (2024)

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Darkly comic sci-fi chiller sees a pet spider turn fast-growing hunter

When a spider falls to Earth in an ice storm and is taken in as a pet, what could go right? Think Alien and M3gan 鈥� and effortless entertainment

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Attenborough dominates our pick of 2024’s best documentaries to date

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The man transforming data from two dramatic storms into music

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Creativity’s origins are probably too complex for simple explanations

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Why eggs should be front and centre in the story of evolution

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