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Imagine you and the rest of your expedition are stranded on a distant planet. Food stores are running low, but the local trees produce a lovely chartreuse fruit. It's tasty and full of nutrients, but has the unfortunate side-effect of killing the experimental animals you've tested it on (as ...
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You may have noticed a slight change to
the Biology in Science Fiction blog's appearance. The change
isn't merely cosmetic - I finally launched a project I've been fiddling with for quite a while. One of the wonders of the internet is the abundance of ...
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Directory of Free Science Fiction With Biology
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Oh, give me a clone Of my own flesh and bone With its Y chromosome changed to X. And after it's grown, Then my own little clone Will be of the opposite sex. The Beam Me Up blog has posted "The Clone Song" , a ditty sung to the tune of Home on the Range, penned by Randall Garrett and Isaac ...
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Michael Shermer - science writer and founder of The Skeptics Society - has made a brief video in which he explains why it's quite unlikely that aliens would look essentially like humans with minor differences in eye shape or forehead topology. He continues in an article in the November ...
Film
sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com - 10 days ago
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At io9 Charlie Jane Anders wrote about the
riffs on Star Wars in the Ewan McGregor-George Clooney
movie The Men Who Stare at Goats . The movie is a humorous fictionalized take on Jon Ronson's (supposedly) non-fiction book by the same name , which ...
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Sci Fi Psi
sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com - 12 days ago
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The Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies (IEET)
will be hosting a seminar on the "Biopolitics of
Popular Culture" : Popular culture is full of tropes and cliches that shape our debates about emerging technologies. Our most transcendent ...
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Biopolitics of Popular Culture Seminar
In a few miles of this forest there must be more ants than there are men in the whole world! This seemed to Holroyd a perfectly new idea. In a few thousand years men had emerged from barbarism to a stage of civilisation that made them feel lords of the future and masters of the earth! But ...
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The latest episode of science-loving web comic The Stonemaker Argument features a little girl after my own heart. Go read the whole comic ! (via Bad Astronomy ) Tags: science fiction , biology
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Roger Moraga has a nice article in the current issue of Clarkesworld Magazine on " Modern Genetics in the World of Fiction ": Most of the time there is a certain amount of unrealistic superscience involved in the creation of speculative fiction, but as a geneticist I can't help but wonder if it ...
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sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com - 21 days ago
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The Unselfish Gene is the first published novel
of science journalist Robert D. Burns , and it
sounds like a lively mixture of pulpy science fiction-horror and genetics. The novel's blurb gives you a taste of that: It's love and terrorism in the ...
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The Unselfish Gene: Altruism and Zombies
sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com - 22 days ago
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If you plan to stay in this Halloween
weekend, you might want to plug your laptop into
your TV, dim the lights and watch one of the many free SF-horror movies featuring terrible (in more ways than one) creatures. Here are a few to get you started: ...
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Creature Features
sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com - 23 days ago
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UK publisher Comma Press has just released When
it Changed , a cool-sounding new anthology where writers
and scientists have teamed up to produce something that incorporates both their specialities. From their book's web site : When It Changed is ...
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When it Changed - Science Into Fiction
sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com - 24 days ago
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Th e Columbus Dispatch published a nice article
about Kenyon College biology professor and science fiction writer
Joan Slonczewski's Biology in Science Fiction course : "It's well-known as being amazing," said Kenyon student Ferrell Garramone, an ...
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Joan Slonczewski's Biology in Science Fiction Course
I have another guest post up at The Reef Tank blog, in which I talk about my favorite science fictional pet fish . Go check it out! Image: Borg Hugh examines Livingston, Captain Picard's pet lionfish Tags: science fiction , biology
