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Our verdict on Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s The Edge of Space-Time: a wild ride

The September read for the New Scientist Book Club was a challenging trip to the edges of space-time with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein – but one which most book club members thoroughly...

Read an extract from Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s The Edge of Space-Time

The opening chapter to the New Scientist Book Club's read for September sees Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explore what we gain when we look at the universe from the margins

The best new popular science books of September 2026

Dive into new titles from major names including Carlo Rovelli, Maggie Aderin, Xand van Tulleken and Jim Al-Khalili, as well as a new biography of Stephen Hawking

‘Thinking about the edges of space-time can help build a better world’

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, New Scientist columnist and author of the September read for the New Scientist Book Club, The Edge of Space-Time, on why the big questions in physics matt...

The best popular-science books of October 2026

With a new book from the late primatologist Frans de Waal and a deep dive into artificial intelligence from New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose, there is some hard-hitting po...

Read an extract from Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel

In the opening to Emily St. John Mandel's new novel Exit Party, the October read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to Los Angeles in 2031, as a curfew lifts from t...

Welcome to Dread Central’s Monthly Book Club

Welcome to the Dread Central Monthly Book Club. This month, we're focused on horror novels you've heard of but maybe haven't read.

The best new science-fiction books of September 2026

From China Miéville to Brandon Sanderson via a tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, there are some really huge names with new sci-fi novels out this month - as well as a new Doctor Who ta...

Emily St. John Mandel: ‘I don’t want to write something relentlessly bleak’

The science-fiction novelist talks to Alison Flood about her latest book Exit Party, a tale of parallel worlds that is the October read for the New Scientist Book Club

Graphic Science: Seven Journeys of Discovery

I have read a number of graphic novels by Darryl Cunningham, who has mainly focused his work on nonfiction, writing biographies about billionaires, Vladimir Putin, and Ayn Rand, as...

Breaking into the Peer-Reviewed Engineering Literature

The book had been typeset. Amazon announced it for preorder. And then, with less than six weeks to publication, anti-ID forces sprang into action. Source

Jonathan Cowie Introduces His New Science Book – “Earth’s Flips of State: The co-evolution of life and planet”

By Jonathan Cowie: One the thing about science fiction (as opposed to fantasy) is that it can take a scientific idea – be it the multiverse, relativistic time dilation, whatever –...

What the Biggest and Most Interesting Book Clubs are Reading in September 2026

Fall is knocking at the door, and a bunch of great book clubs have announced their September selections, from a blockbuster book's sequel to an atmospheric horror gothic.

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September 15, 2026View Online | Join All Access | Listen Speculation about the impact of a once-in-a-decade rave review has swirled around the bookish internet since the New York...

More inexpensive ebook goodies!

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Aardvark Book Club

Where BookTok meets the bookshelf. A digital rebuild for Aardvark Book Club — editorial curation, custom 3D, and interactions that make every page feel like an unboxing.

How I made a slime mould the protagonist of my new sci-fi novel

How do you get the science right in a sci-fi book? Columnist Annalee Newitz started by asking many kinds of researchers lots of very strange questions – and ended up in love with s...

Useful Inventions, That Haven't Been Made Yet

I am a fully paid up member of the Douglas Adams fan club, but am clearly not the most knowledgable one. Thanks.

Ambitious sci-fi novel imagines a universe where time flows backwards

People are born old in their graves and get more robust over life, only to shrink into babies who are pushed into their mother’s womb. The ambitious Under Story conjures a disconce...

BOOK REVIEW: A physicist’s guide to life, the universe and everything

New Cozy Books to Read With Your Book Club

For cozy book club reading, there's culinary sleuthing, a bookish romance set in a small town in Vermont, Japanese healing fiction, and more.

Social Psychology of Risk Book Club – Antifragile

I’m hosting a free Social Psychology of Risk Book Club this November, and you’re invited. Over four Tuesday evenings... The post Social Psychology of Risk Book Club – Antifragile a...

More inexpensive ebook goodies!

You can now get your hands on the digital edition of Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 for only 2.99$ by following this Amazon Associate link. This OneLink will take you to the...

For a mere $2 million, You could own three books that unlocked the universe

The primates known as humans, after ages of unawareness, managed to unveil the hidden dynamics of the universe in little more than a century.It happened between 1543 and 1687, when...