We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E.

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“Parable of the Talents,” by Octavia Butler, “Playlist for the Apocalypse,” by Rita Dove, “Ninetails,” by Sally Wen Mao, and a sprinkle of Harry Crews. How do you organize your book ...

Ever since attending The Secret Chord, a moving tribute to the Montreal bard’s music, poetry and life now playing at the ...

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Like any reader, my choices are personal and idiosyncratic ... My two favorite books were both fiction: Octavia Butler’s “Kindred,” published in 1979, and George Eliot’s “Middlemarch ...