George R.R. Martin is the author behind a Song of Ice and Fire, which HBO adapted as Game of Thrones. He also wrote Fire & ...

George R. R. Martin reveals why author Frank Herbert was annoyed by the demands for him to write more stories set in the Dune ...

The novelist Julian Barnes doubts that we can ever really overcome our fixed beliefs. He should keep an open mind.

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Jay Ingram is the Victoria-based former host of CBC Radio's Quirks & Quarks. He is the author of 20 books, which have been ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

Ages come and pass, and a new month has dawned — bringing with it new books! It seems like it's always a busy time in the ...

You can't download Kindle books as files anymore, but don't panic. Here's how to find thousands of free and cheap ebooks from alternative platforms that work on your Kindle.

And then there are the “rebirths” Benjamin described: the second acts, rediscoveries, and renewals that bring older works back into circulation. Happily, unfairly forgotten treasures are in vogue.

Michel Nieva, the author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, Dengue Boy, on his story of a drowned, pandemic-struck future Earth – and his unusual protagonist ...

Here’s why Air Force One takes so long to build. From the outside, the president’s plane doesn’t look all that different from ...

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster ...