As the New Scientist Book Club reads Kim Stanley Robinson’s science-fiction novel in April, George Bass digs into why this ...

This is the opening of Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, the New Scientist Book Club read for April, as humans come to the ...

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Fifty years ago, Richard Dawkins shared an irresistible scientific metaphor with the world that modernised and democratised ...