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The FT examines the causes and effects of an increasing global resistance to antibiotics: from the pressures doctors are under to prescribe them even for viral infections, to what new treatments are currently in the pipeline, as well as what role can the consumer play in reducing antibiotic use in the food chain
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George RR Martin’s Hugo Awards speech on John W Campbell and HP Lovecraft splits sci-fi community
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The environment takes its revenge in dystopian tales by Max Brooks, MR Carey and Tim Lebbon
Folklore tales from Titanic to Arthurian legend, a re-release for Planet of the Apes and a medieval human world in Aliens: Phalanx
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Dystopian satires on cannibalism and Britain in the near future — plus Uriah Heep runs amok
The prescient sci-fi writer on why the future shock of tech mirrors the Industrial Revolution
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An authorised Crichton sequel, English monsters reborn — and futures bright and dystopian
The late John W Campbell dubbed a ‘fascist’ by Under the Pendulum Sun author Jeannette Ng
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