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Fanfare! Putting the Science in Science Fiction

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Fantastic news! That's a great angle. What's fascinating is that so much of what was science fiction when I was a boy is now fact. Scientific research is now going exponential.

I inject science into my techno-thrillers (and also provide a reading list and links in the References section at the rear).
 
This sounds fascinating. I was just discussing with a friend how it seems like science fiction writers have accurately predict scientific progress and how we read sci-fi stories in terms of possibilities. I read an article today about phenotyping unknown DNA to solve murders and how very new (and unreliable) this technology is, and I thought it fit quite well in this topic.

Congratulations on being included in the anthology, and thank you for posting the link. I'm ashamed to say I haven't stumbled across his blog yet, but I'm remedying that now.
 
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