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Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

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From an Academy-honoured screenwriter comes a mind-bending thriller – a bold vision of quantum AI and time travel, and a meditation on Fermi’s Paradox