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- Sep 15, 2026
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How I made a slime mould the protagonist of my new sci-fi novel | New Scientist (opens the original)
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I never start writing a science fiction book without first asking scientists a lot of extremely strange questions. My next novel – A Wall Is Also a Road, which comes out on 6 October – was a particularly tough case. I decided that my main character would be a cellular slime mould who is also a graduate student. Why not? I certainly spent most of graduate school feeling like an amoeba. Why it’s high time we stopped anthropomorphising ants Gardenpath, the slime mould in question, is studying envir
Feeding our books into generative AI risks creating a cultural void | New Scientist (opens the original)
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In 800 years, a group of students is sitting in a graduate seminar devoted to an era known as the Void Ages. They’ve read a couple of books and watched some of the two-dimensional, low-resolution media once called “movies”. A few students even assembled devices to experience “video games” – interactive stories devoted to accumulating digital representations of value – using the original controllers. The professor is explaining the psychology behind why game controllers looked like fists covered
The ancient Silk Road city that has a lesson for Silicon Valley | New Scientist (opens the original)
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I stood on the outskirts of ancient Samarkand in Uzbekistan, trying to figure out a path to the citadel. Back in the 7th century AD, this was one of the greatest trade cities on what is now known as the Silk Road, a grand network of trade routes connecting Asia to Europe. I would have entered through an opulent gate, flanked by guards and surrounded by a thronging mass of visitors and traders from all across Asia. The air would have rung with voices and smelled like smoke and spices. But when I
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