Alex Foster’s first novel is about a futuristic high-speed travel system with troubling global consequences. Alex Foster’s debut novel, “Circular Motion,” is precisely 360 pages long, an appropriately ...

One of the most beloved and symbolic rituals in Hinduism is performing Aarti. it involves waving a flame, usually in the form of a ghee lamp or burned with camphor, in front of a deity, accompanied by ...

New Scientist Book Club has been reading Alex Foster’s debut novel, Circular Motion, in which he charts what would happen if Earth’s rotation sped up by not just a millisecond, but a minute, or an ...

The New Scientist Book Club made a jump backwards through time for our latest read, Alex Foster’s Circular Motion, moving from the millennia-ahead future of Adam Roberts’s Lake of Darkness to a world ...

In Hinduism, rituals are not performed randomly; each act has a purpose and meaning. One such ritual is Aarti, a devotional practice in which light from a lamp is offered to a deity. Whether it is at ...