Emily Wilson

1 week ago | themusic.com.au | Emily Wilson

More Hilltop Hoods After years of steadily brewing anticipation, Hilltoop Hoods are finally back. The Blackwood-bred hip-hop three-piece - one of the country’s most enduring music forces - have just announced their first album in six years: Fall From The Light. Produced by One Above with additional production by Sesta and Suffa, Fall From The Light will be Hilltop Hoods’ ninth studio album and is set to be released on Friday, August 1st, through Island Records/UMA.

2 weeks ago | newscientist.com | Emily Wilson

Every Version of YouGrace Chan (Verve Books (UK, out now; US, 23 September))Science fiction that features characters who spend more time in virtual reality than in real life, whether via electrodes stuck into the backs of their necks or some kind of gloop-filled tank, isn’t exactly a new thing. In fact, picking up Grace Chan’s , I worried that the premise of the novel – some young people in the future having to decide whether to permanently…

3 weeks ago | newscientist.com | Emily Wilson

Larry Niven is one of the biggest names in the history of science fiction, and it was a privilege to interview him via Zoom at his home in Los Angeles recently. His 1970 novel Ringworld is the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, but he has also written a whole space-fleet-load of novels and short stories over the years, including my favourite sci-fi of all time, A World Out of Time. At 87 years of age, he is very much still writing.

1 month ago | newscientist.com | Emily Wilson

Environment It can be difficult to work out which books count as climate fiction. Emily H. Wilson reads the shortlist for the Climate Fiction prize – and discovers Roz Dineen's powerful novel Briefly Very Beautiful OrbitalSamantha HarveyThe MorningsideTéa ObrehtAnd So I RoarAbi DaréThe Ministry of TimeKaliane BradleyBriefly Very BeautifulRoz DineenClimate fiction is, ahem, hot right now. But I am still not sure we know exactly what it is.

1 month ago | newscientist.com | Emily Wilson

RingworldLarry Niven (Gollancz)Ringworld by Larry Niven was published in 1970 to huge acclaim, winning both Hugo and Nebula awards; it’s been in print ever since. It came out when humans had just landed on the moon and it looked like we might be on our way to the stars. The title alone evokes a particular golden age of science fiction, when (mostly male) writers wrestled with big physics and big ideas, imagining far-off futures where humans had galactic-scale adventures.