The New Scientist Book Club has just finished our December read, Iain M. Banks's sci-fi novel The Player of Games - and most of us were fans of this big-thinking Culture tale

The author of the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New Scientist Book Club, on how she created her startling protagonist

In this extract from the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to Sierra Greer's protagonist, a sex robot called Annie

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A woman's body has been found to consist of varying proportions of male and female cells because of an extremely rare form of chimerism

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De nouvelles trouvailles archéologiques témoignent du mode de vie des Néandertaliens le long de la côte portugaise. Une civilisation beaucoup plus avancée que ce que l'on soupçonnait.