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Why I started my sci-fi novel with a world-ending supernova

Claire North, whose space opera Slow Gods is the July read for the New Scientist Book Club, discusses how a population might deal with knowledge that their planet will be destroyed in 100 years

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The best new science-fiction novels published in July 2026

Sci-fi fans can enjoy a new Red Dwarf novel – the first for 30 years – this month, as well as sci-fi horror from Paul Tremblay and a journey to Planet Happy with Riley August

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The Warriors come out to Broadway with Lin-Manuel Miranda musical

Miranda and Eisa Davis’s concept album based on the 1979 film is to be realised for the stage, co-directed by Jenny Koons and Hamilton’s Andy BlankenbuehlerLin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis’s concept album based on The Warriors, the cult novel and film about warring New York gang

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Transcription by Ben Lerner wins Orwell prize for political fiction

Judging chair calls Lerner’s novel a ‘funny, brainy and timely’ study of our appetite for technology, while Karen Bartlett wins the nonfiction prize for The Escape from Kabul American writer Ben Lerner has won this year’s Orwell prize for political fiction for Transcription, a no

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Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders open, but don’t expect a physical copy

The blockbuster launch is expected to dwarf the box office takings of the year’s biggest movies with one industry analyst predicting it could make $1bn within an hourIt is, quite simply, the most anticipated piece of entertainment since the Star Wars prequels and now, at last, yo

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Teenage boys in UK ‘stuck’ reading primary-level books while girls’ tastes expand

Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series accounts for eight of the 10 most read books by 11- to 14-year-old boys, while girls the same age enjoy a wider range of authors and genresTeenage boys are “stuck” reading primary school books such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid, while girls the

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‘A privilege – and pretty terrifying’: James Norton to play Hamlet in the West End

The Happy Valley actor is lined up as the lead in German director Thomas Ostermeier’s first Shakespearean play in EnglishJames Norton is to take on his first major Shakespearean stage role and play Hamlet in the West End next year.The King & Conqueror star said it was a “privileg

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Queenie Is Working On It by Candice Carty-Williams review – a smart sequel to a breakout b

Queenie’s ticking biological clock drives her chaotic misadventures in this sage and funny follow-upA gynaecological examination is a good analogy for the kind of painful self-inspection at which Queenie Jenkins excels. The heroine of Candice Carty-Williams’s 2019 debut Queenie m

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Grand Theft Auto workers seek union recognition after mass firings

Exclusive: Staff at Rockstar Games hope move can be completed before release of GTA VI scheduled for NovemberThe makers of Grand Theft Auto are attempting to gain official union recognition after mass sackings last year.Video game designers and other employees at Rockstar Games a

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Saxophones, song charts and a rejected Simpsons script: David Bowie archive to tour the UK

V&A takes exhibition of more than 100 pieces by ‘artist in constant motion’ around Britain, from Dundee to BristolKansai Yamamoto’s costumes for Ziggy Stardust, Bowie’s Berlin apartment house keys and his childhood saxophone are just some of the artefacts that visitors around the

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Duke of York’s theatre to be renamed after Tom Stoppard

New name recognises the playwright’s huge impact on British theatre with producer Sonia Friedman saying he would be ‘tickled pink’The Duke of York’s theatre in the West End is to become the Tom Stoppard theatre in honour of the playwright who died in November.The theatre is curre

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Seasonal Quartet: Ali Smith and New European Ensemble review – words and music connect

Spitalfields festival, LondonNew pieces written in response to the novelist’s works by Kate Moore, Alice Yeung, Seung-Won Oh and Sara Zamboni made for ravishing harmonies and interplay in an unusual concertWhy write words about music, Hans Keller once asked, when you could just w

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