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Book Club: The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
The New Scientist Book Club features an extract from Peter Heller’s novel 'The Dog Stars,' which follows pilot Hig after a superflu pandemic. The book explores themes of survival and solitude.
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In this extract from Peter Heller’s novel, the August read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to pilot Hig, who lives alone after most of the world was killed in a superflu pandemic
2026-07-31 08:25 UTC