{"id":3839,"date":"2016-11-22T16:53:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T16:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2016-11-22T16:53:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T16:53:50","slug":"in-which-im-published-in-science-fiction-by-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2016\/11\/22\/in-which-im-published-in-science-fiction-by-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"In which I’m published – in ‘Science Fiction by Scientists’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the Queen of Lab Lit<\/a>, a literary subgenre<\/a> whose defining characteristic includes not<\/em> being science fiction, people are often surprised to discover that I do actually like SF. <\/p>\n

But it’s true. I read little else when I was younger, and though my tastes have broadened considerably since, I still enjoy the occasional foray into the speculative. I think a skilled writer can say everything she wants within the constraints of reality, but it can also be a challenge for both reader and writer to view reality through an altered lens.<\/p>\n

Last year I was approached by Michael Brotherton, a professor of astronomy at the University of Wyoming and an SF author<\/a>. He was putting together an anthology of SF written by scientists for Springer. The collection would employ a format used quite extensively by Comma Press<\/a>, which is to pair fiction about science with a factual essay on the scientific topic covered. <\/p>\n

I weighed in with “The Tree of Life”, a story about genetic engineering. The rest of the anthology ranges across the scientific disciplines, and I can’t wait to read all the other tales.<\/p>\n

It’s already out on Kindle on Amazon UK<\/a>, and the print version can be pre-ordered there and on Amazon US<\/a>. There’s also a nice review in Nature Physics<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Go on, you know you want to!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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