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Views Book Club Champagne supernova Slow Gods, an elegant and big-concept space opera, is one of our most popular books yet with book club members, says Alison Flood THE New Scientist Book Club has spent July reading Claire North’s space opera Slow Gods. Set in the far future, it follows the fortunes of a civilisation that has learned that their planet will be destroyed by a supernova – in 100 years’ time. “Reminded me a bit at the start of [Ann Leckie’s] Ancillary Justice,” she wrote. “Also, whenever [Maw] talked about having trouble with social situations and understanding his feelings, I was reminded of Murderbot ‘having an emotion’.” change. “Subtle metaphor it is not,” they said. …