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The novel that changed my mind – ten experts share a perspective‑shifting read

Our beliefs aren’t fixed. They’re shaped, stretched and sometimes overturned by the ideas we encounter as we move through life. For many of us, novels are the moments where that shift happens.

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The Guardian view on the new space race: humanity risks exporting its old politics to the moon

Editorial: Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we look skyward, where a new lunar contest mirrors humanity’s struggle to live within planetary limits

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Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing

“Earning a humanities degree was not only life changing, in terms of opening up a world of knowledge otherwise beyond my reach, it also turns out to have been enormously productive – for me and many, many people around me,” said Tim Winton this week. “My little arts degree has…

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Five speculative novels that can help to understand our relationship with soil

The continued survival of all land-based species depends in part on a thin layer of topsoil. Degradation of soils around the world through poor land management, pollution and industrial resource extraction are major contributors to climate change and threaten our ability to feed ourselves.

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This literary sci-fi odyssey should be Netflix’s next big-budget adaptation

Kim Stanley Robinson's epic Mars Trilogy is the perfect source material for the next great sci-fi show.

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The Guardian view on utopias: news from nowhere can help us here and now

Editorial: The Booker prize has gone to a dystopian vision of a totalitarian Ireland. But imagined futures needn’t always be bleak

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Billionaires are out of touch and much too powerful. The planet is in trouble

The 1% aren’t just the biggest climate wreckers, they also greatly influence how the world responds to the crisis, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit

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Telling stories of our climate futures is essential to thinking through the net-zero choices of today

It has been a year of devastating climate impacts with humanity around the world experiencing a bitter taste of what climate scientists have been warning about for years. The dire prospect is that we are on the precipice of a “new abnormal.”

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The Long Heat, an energy coup, a season of asthma ... new Australian cli-fi novel Children of Tomorrow challenges the form but is rife with contradictions

For at least the past decade, writers and critics have been debating the capacity of literary fiction to represent the realities of climate change. Some argue fiction is one of our best tools for reckoning with a world transfigured by anthropogenic warming. Others believe traditional narrative modes are unable to…

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Science fiction exhibition in London takes visitors on a journey into space

Voyage to the Edge of Imagination at the Science Museum uses AI and interactive exhibits to create an immersive experience

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