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The best new science fiction books of 2024

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Murder in space, a sexbot, a dystopian vision of the future: our science fiction columnist Emily H. Wilson picks her top five reads of 2024

By Emily Wilson

2024 has been a great year for sci-fi, from time travel stories to those set in space

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It has been a good year for science fiction, with a novel set on the International Space Station winning the 2024 Booker prize. Orbital is a beautiful, sublimely written, hopeful book that takes place over 16 orbits of Earth.

One might argue that it isn’t science fiction. After all, the ISS is a real place and the book is simply a novelisation of ordinary life upon it. Author Samantha Harvey describes it as “space pastoral”. But then what…

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