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The Genetic Book of the Dead: Richard Dawkins **** 31 October 2024 - One of the best illustrated books I've seen, wonderfully showing the impact of species' heritage, combined what could be an attempt to shrug off a Kuhnian paradigm shift.
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Webb's Universe: Maggie Aderin-Pocock **** 28 October 2024 - The history of and images from the James Webb Space telescope. More than a coffee table book (though it is arm-achingly big), but could have had even more text.
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Daydreaming in the Solar System: John Moores and Jesse Rogerson **** 22 October 2024 - Manages a rarely achieved success in combining SF and popular science by giving vignette SF stories on a solar system setting, then the science to back it up.
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The Circumference of the World: Lavie Tidhar ***** 16 October 2024 - A kaleidoscopic piece of science fiction delight mixing golden age authors, a mysterious book, a potentially unreal existence and more. Remarkable.
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Deep Dream: Indrapamit Das (Ed.) **** 14 October 2024 - Despite some predictable lapses into pretentiousness, this SF collection of stories 'exploring the future of art' was surprisingly readable.
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Void: Veronica Roth **** 8 October 2024 - A well-written and hlghly readable ebook (longish) short story, that puts that 50s classic a working class dogsbody on a spaceship into a time dilation setting.
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