The Biology in Science Fiction blog discusses the biology - good and bad- - in science fiction books, movies and television. It also takes a look at current scientific achievements that were yesterday's fiction.
Recent PostsYou 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...
Oh, give me a cloneOf my own flesh and boneWith its Y chromosome changed to X.And after it's grown,Then my own little cloneWill 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, pen...
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 cont...
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 doc...
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 expe...
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 t...
This blog is currently rated a 4.75 out of a possible 5 based on 4 comments.
Kylie SturgessFantastic, proactive and detailed writing - this is a woman with her finger on the pulse of science and fiction and biology (and can tell you exactly how wrong they got the fake CPR they administered on the screen!)
PK LentzIt's always nice to discover good "niche" reference sites for use in writing. I couldn't agree more with your thoughts on Mundane SF!
Joseph j7uy5This is an interesting blog. Quite different from what I usually read.
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I'm a biotechnologist and I've always been a sci fic reader so I consider your blog such a great one!
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