The world, in perspective.

Clarice Beckett painted the life and scenery of her coastal home in Victoria until her death in 1935. Selling almost nothing while she was alive, she is now recognised as one of the country's pioneering tonal and abstract artists.

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In this extract from Chris Beckett’s Dark Eden, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet some of the inhabitants of a dark planet that drifts outside the Milky Way, descendants of two astronauts marooned there over a century earlier