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The Future author Naomi Alderman: 'We wake up terrified of the future'

By Obomate Briggs

Our New Scientist Book Club has been reading Naomi Alderman’s The Future, a sci-fi techno-thriller about three billionaire tycoons facing the end of the world. This week, our culture editor Alison Flood got to catch up with the award-winning novelist to talk about machine learning, how the Old Testament influenced her writing and humanity’s terror of the future.

The Future is the latest pick for New Scientist’s new book club, for which you can sign up here

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