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Narrowing down the best books of 2025 to a list of 15 inevitably means leaving out fine works, including Shadow Ticket, the first novel by Thomas Pynchon in 12 years, and We Do Not Part by Nobel Prize ...

What steps do you take to figure out how the human brain processes memory? You hold a fiction writing contest, record people's brains while listening to the winners, and crunch your data, of course.

So: what were the best works of science fiction published this year? I will start with two new books that aren’t actually new, but have only just been published in English. First up is Ice by Jacek ...

This trade scare proved just how volatile cryptocurrency can be. Cryptocurrencies suffered tens of billions of dollars in losses last weekend after a statement from Trump rattled high-risk investors ...

Here’s the story in 99 words: NCJ’s 99-word Flash Fiction Contest is on. Send up to three entries in the body of an email (no attachments or links) to [email protected] with your name and ...