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LABLIT LIST
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.PEOPLE – LABLIT
João is an Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a Researcher in Reproductive Biology at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology. His first novel, in Portuguese, is Portland, Portugal (Afrontamento, 2007), and he writes frequent short fiction for LabLit. He is also quite interested in graphic novels(comics
ABOUT LABLIT.COM
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.CONTACT – LABLIT
Taking control of the narrative. Scene through a picture window. The science of coincidence. (or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Chapter Eight: The Sample. Interviews. Chapter Seven: The Institute. The Magnafan. The ghost of cells past: Part 4. CONTRIBUTE TO LABLIT.COM LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.THE SPECIAL ONES
Editor's Note: With this story, we are pleased to continue with the third story in our Young Authors series, a collection of six pieces of short fiction written by pairs of American eighth-graders as part of a special English class devoted to laboratory literature.You can read all about this interesting project in the accompanying Editorial, and use the navigation bars at the top right to EARTH CLOSETS AND GREAT STINKS Earth closets and Great Stinks. I n the summer of 1855, the great Victorian scientist Michael Faraday took a boat trip on the Thames in London – but his was no pleasure cruise. He wrote to the Times describing his experience: “the whole of the river was an opaque, pale brown fluid”; “the smell was very bad”; and “near thebridges
"IT HAS NOT ESCAPED OUR NOTICE..." I n 1953, the following sentence appeared near the end of a neat little paper by James Watson and Francis Crick proposing the double helical structure of DNA (Nature 171: 737-738 (1953)): "It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the geneticmaterial."
CLINICALLY UNPROVEN
In a recent case, the “clinically proven” tag was used in advertising for RoC Complete Lift Cream, and this got its manufacturers, Johnson and Johnson, into deep water. Complete Lift Cream is a snip at £18 for a 50ml pot and is sold to make the skin look lifted and firmer, to “rediscover a LABLIT – THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE IN FICTION AND FACTTHE LABLIT LISTARCHIVEPEOPLECONTACTEXPERIMENTING WITH THE SENSESTHE OUTLIER The science of coincidence(or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Gavin Milnthorpe | 29 November 2020. Because it is Science that will be my chief witness today. Logic shall beLABLIT LIST
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.PEOPLE – LABLIT
João is an Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a Researcher in Reproductive Biology at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology. His first novel, in Portuguese, is Portland, Portugal (Afrontamento, 2007), and he writes frequent short fiction for LabLit. He is also quite interested in graphic novels(comics
ABOUT LABLIT.COM
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.CONTACT – LABLIT
Taking control of the narrative. Scene through a picture window. The science of coincidence. (or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Chapter Eight: The Sample. Interviews. Chapter Seven: The Institute. The Magnafan. The ghost of cells past: Part 4. CONTRIBUTE TO LABLIT.COM LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.THE SPECIAL ONES
Editor's Note: With this story, we are pleased to continue with the third story in our Young Authors series, a collection of six pieces of short fiction written by pairs of American eighth-graders as part of a special English class devoted to laboratory literature.You can read all about this interesting project in the accompanying Editorial, and use the navigation bars at the top right to EARTH CLOSETS AND GREAT STINKS Earth closets and Great Stinks. I n the summer of 1855, the great Victorian scientist Michael Faraday took a boat trip on the Thames in London – but his was no pleasure cruise. He wrote to the Times describing his experience: “the whole of the river was an opaque, pale brown fluid”; “the smell was very bad”; and “near thebridges
"IT HAS NOT ESCAPED OUR NOTICE..." I n 1953, the following sentence appeared near the end of a neat little paper by James Watson and Francis Crick proposing the double helical structure of DNA (Nature 171: 737-738 (1953)): "It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the geneticmaterial."
CLINICALLY UNPROVEN
In a recent case, the “clinically proven” tag was used in advertising for RoC Complete Lift Cream, and this got its manufacturers, Johnson and Johnson, into deep water. Complete Lift Cream is a snip at £18 for a 50ml pot and is sold to make the skin look lifted and firmer, to “rediscover aPEOPLE – LABLIT
João is an Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a Researcher in Reproductive Biology at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology. His first novel, in Portuguese, is Portland, Portugal (Afrontamento, 2007), and he writes frequent short fiction for LabLit. He is also quite interested in graphic novels(comics
ABOUT LABLIT.COM
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.PLAYS – LABLIT
Novels; Crossover novels; Films; Plays; TV; Blinded by the Sun. by Stephen Poliakoff Drama: Scientists squabble as cold fusion goes belly-up. Links: Amazon (UK) Copenhagen. by Michael Frayn Historical drama: Mr. and Mrs. Niels Bohr reminisce with Werner Heisenberg over the uncertainty of memory and quantum mechanics. Links: Amazon (UK) Les Palmes de M. SchutzCONTACT – LABLIT
Taking control of the narrative. Scene through a picture window. The science of coincidence. (or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Chapter Eight: The Sample. Interviews. Chapter Seven: The Institute. The Magnafan. The ghost of cells past: Part 4.CROSSOVER NOVELS
Novels; Crossover novels; Films; Plays; TV; Science fiction or other genres with particularly realistic scientists Blood Music. by Greg Bear Thriller: Genetically engineered cells take over (admittedly in an over-the-top way, but the lab scenes are extremely realistic, hence the book’s inclusion here). Links: Amazon (UK) Jurassic ParkTHE SPECIAL ONES
Editor's Note: With this story, we are pleased to continue with the third story in our Young Authors series, a collection of six pieces of short fiction written by pairs of American eighth-graders as part of a special English class devoted to laboratory literature.You can read all about this interesting project in the accompanying Editorial, and use the navigation bars at the top right to STAR SIGNS – FROM THE LABLIT SHORT STORY SERIES The lights went up, the magic of the shifting night skies banished by a hemisphere of disapproval, an auditorium of turned heads, scowling, tutting and leaving. Moon and the narrator were locked in a war of obscure words and references and all-too-clear raised voices and bodylanguage.
ALONG THE EDGE
Professor de Haas drew a rectangle on the board. “Let’s say this rectangle is made from a thin conducting material, and we put it in a high magnetic field pointing out of the board.” de Haas made a fist, his thumb out, toward the class. THE METAPHORICAL RICHNESS OF SCIENCE IN FICTION Editor's note: Recently we celebrated ten years of Fiction Lab, the world's first book group dedicated to lab lit novels.This essay is adapted from a speech given on the night by Philip Ball, one of the panelists, and is the first in a small series from the same event.DR. BACTERIA
F ew scientists who admire neurobiologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s extraordinary drawings of neurons know that early in his career, he wrote science fiction. Cajal’s Vacation Stories, written in 1885-86 and published in 1905, explore the ethical consequences of what was then cutting-edge science: bacteriology, artificial insemination, photography, and the power of suggestion. LABLIT – THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE IN FICTION AND FACTTHE LABLIT LISTARCHIVEPEOPLECONTACTEXPERIMENTING WITH THE SENSESTHE OUTLIER The science of coincidence(or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Gavin Milnthorpe | 29 November 2020. Because it is Science that will be my chief witness today. Logic shall beLABLIT LIST
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.PEOPLE – LABLIT
João is an Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a Researcher in Reproductive Biology at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology. His first novel, in Portuguese, is Portland, Portugal (Afrontamento, 2007), and he writes frequent short fiction for LabLit. He is also quite interested in graphic novels(comics
ABOUT LABLIT.COM
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.PLAYS – LABLIT
Novels; Crossover novels; Films; Plays; TV; Blinded by the Sun. by Stephen Poliakoff Drama: Scientists squabble as cold fusion goes belly-up. Links: Amazon (UK) Copenhagen. by Michael Frayn Historical drama: Mr. and Mrs. Niels Bohr reminisce with Werner Heisenberg over the uncertainty of memory and quantum mechanics. Links: Amazon (UK) Les Palmes de M. SchutzCONTACT – LABLIT
Taking control of the narrative. Scene through a picture window. The science of coincidence. (or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Chapter Eight: The Sample. Interviews. Chapter Seven: The Institute. The Magnafan. The ghost of cells past: Part 4. CONTRIBUTE TO LABLIT.COM LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.THE SPECIAL ONES
Editor's Note: With this story, we are pleased to continue with the third story in our Young Authors series, a collection of six pieces of short fiction written by pairs of American eighth-graders as part of a special English class devoted to laboratory literature.You can read all about this interesting project in the accompanying Editorial, and use the navigation bars at the top right to EARTH CLOSETS AND GREAT STINKS Earth closets and Great Stinks. I n the summer of 1855, the great Victorian scientist Michael Faraday took a boat trip on the Thames in London – but his was no pleasure cruise. He wrote to the Times describing his experience: “the whole of the river was an opaque, pale brown fluid”; “the smell was very bad”; and “near thebridges
"IT HAS NOT ESCAPED OUR NOTICE..." I n 1953, the following sentence appeared near the end of a neat little paper by James Watson and Francis Crick proposing the double helical structure of DNA (Nature 171: 737-738 (1953)): "It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the geneticmaterial."
LABLIT – THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE IN FICTION AND FACTTHE LABLIT LISTARCHIVEPEOPLECONTACTEXPERIMENTING WITH THE SENSESTHE OUTLIER The science of coincidence(or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Gavin Milnthorpe | 29 November 2020. Because it is Science that will be my chief witness today. Logic shall beLABLIT LIST
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.PEOPLE – LABLIT
João is an Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a Researcher in Reproductive Biology at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology. His first novel, in Portuguese, is Portland, Portugal (Afrontamento, 2007), and he writes frequent short fiction for LabLit. He is also quite interested in graphic novels(comics
ABOUT LABLIT.COM
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.PLAYS – LABLIT
Novels; Crossover novels; Films; Plays; TV; Blinded by the Sun. by Stephen Poliakoff Drama: Scientists squabble as cold fusion goes belly-up. Links: Amazon (UK) Copenhagen. by Michael Frayn Historical drama: Mr. and Mrs. Niels Bohr reminisce with Werner Heisenberg over the uncertainty of memory and quantum mechanics. Links: Amazon (UK) Les Palmes de M. SchutzCONTACT – LABLIT
Taking control of the narrative. Scene through a picture window. The science of coincidence. (or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Chapter Eight: The Sample. Interviews. Chapter Seven: The Institute. The Magnafan. The ghost of cells past: Part 4. CONTRIBUTE TO LABLIT.COM LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.THE SPECIAL ONES
Editor's Note: With this story, we are pleased to continue with the third story in our Young Authors series, a collection of six pieces of short fiction written by pairs of American eighth-graders as part of a special English class devoted to laboratory literature.You can read all about this interesting project in the accompanying Editorial, and use the navigation bars at the top right to EARTH CLOSETS AND GREAT STINKS Earth closets and Great Stinks. I n the summer of 1855, the great Victorian scientist Michael Faraday took a boat trip on the Thames in London – but his was no pleasure cruise. He wrote to the Times describing his experience: “the whole of the river was an opaque, pale brown fluid”; “the smell was very bad”; and “near thebridges
"IT HAS NOT ESCAPED OUR NOTICE..." I n 1953, the following sentence appeared near the end of a neat little paper by James Watson and Francis Crick proposing the double helical structure of DNA (Nature 171: 737-738 (1953)): "It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the geneticmaterial."
ABOUT LABLIT.COM
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.PLAYS – LABLIT
Novels; Crossover novels; Films; Plays; TV; Blinded by the Sun. by Stephen Poliakoff Drama: Scientists squabble as cold fusion goes belly-up. Links: Amazon (UK) Copenhagen. by Michael Frayn Historical drama: Mr. and Mrs. Niels Bohr reminisce with Werner Heisenberg over the uncertainty of memory and quantum mechanics. Links: Amazon (UK) Les Palmes de M. SchutzCONTACT – LABLIT
Taking control of the narrative. Scene through a picture window. The science of coincidence. (or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Chapter Eight: The Sample. Interviews. Chapter Seven: The Institute. The Magnafan. The ghost of cells past: Part 4.CROSSOVER NOVELS
Novels; Crossover novels; Films; Plays; TV; Science fiction or other genres with particularly realistic scientists Blood Music. by Greg Bear Thriller: Genetically engineered cells take over (admittedly in an over-the-top way, but the lab scenes are extremely realistic, hence the book’s inclusion here). Links: Amazon (UK) Jurassic ParkTHE SPECIAL ONES
Editor's Note: With this story, we are pleased to continue with the third story in our Young Authors series, a collection of six pieces of short fiction written by pairs of American eighth-graders as part of a special English class devoted to laboratory literature.You can read all about this interesting project in the accompanying Editorial, and use the navigation bars at the top right to STAR SIGNS – FROM THE LABLIT SHORT STORY SERIES The lights went up, the magic of the shifting night skies banished by a hemisphere of disapproval, an auditorium of turned heads, scowling, tutting and leaving. Moon and the narrator were locked in a war of obscure words and references and all-too-clear raised voices and bodylanguage.
ALONG THE EDGE
Professor de Haas drew a rectangle on the board. “Let’s say this rectangle is made from a thin conducting material, and we put it in a high magnetic field pointing out of the board.” de Haas made a fist, his thumb out, toward the class. THE METAPHORICAL RICHNESS OF SCIENCE IN FICTION Editor's note: Recently we celebrated ten years of Fiction Lab, the world's first book group dedicated to lab lit novels.This essay is adapted from a speech given on the night by Philip Ball, one of the panelists, and is the first in a small series from the same event.INTO THE PIT
Editor's note: We are pleased to present the conclusion of a two-part story by Matthew Perryman. Use the navigation bar on the upper right to catch up. Wednesday, 28 August 2013. T he snake runs around my fingers in a single coil. A perfect circle, like I'mDR. BACTERIA
F ew scientists who admire neurobiologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s extraordinary drawings of neurons know that early in his career, he wrote science fiction. Cajal’s Vacation Stories, written in 1885-86 and published in 1905, explore the ethical consequences of what was then cutting-edge science: bacteriology, artificial insemination, photography, and the power of suggestion. LABLIT – THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE IN FICTION AND FACTTHE LABLIT LISTARCHIVEPEOPLECONTACTEXPERIMENTING WITH THE SENSESTHE OUTLIER The science of coincidence(or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Gavin Milnthorpe | 29 November 2020. Because it is Science that will be my chief witness today. Logic shall beABOUT LABLIT
About Lablit. LabLit.com is dedicated to real laboratory culture and to the portrayal and perceptions of that culture – science, scientists and labs – in fiction, the media and across popular culture. It does not generally deal with the genre of science fiction, except in essays which shed light on science in popular culture orrealistic
PEOPLE – LABLIT
João is an Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a Researcher in Reproductive Biology at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology. His first novel, in Portuguese, is Portland, Portugal (Afrontamento, 2007), and he writes frequent short fiction for LabLit. He is also quite interested in graphic novels(comics
LABLIT LIST
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.ABOUT LABLIT.COM
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.THE LABLIT LIST
Editor’s note: This list will be a continual work-in-progress; nominate your favorite work here. (We always have a dozen or so under consideration and updates take place about once or twice a year. Our next update is due in Spring 2021! Please note that ‘lab lit’ is not ‘science fiction’; briefly, lab lit fiction depicts realistic scientists as central characters and portrays fairlyCONTACT – LABLIT
Taking control of the narrative. Scene through a picture window. The science of coincidence. (or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Chapter Eight: The Sample. Interviews. Chapter Seven: The Institute. The Magnafan. The ghost of cells past: Part 4.THE MAGNAFAN
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present the next story in our Young Authors series, a collection of six pieces of short fiction written by pairs of American eighth-graders as part of a special English class devoted to laboratory literature.You can read all about this interesting project in the accompanying Editorial.Use the ‘Young Authors’ category to catch up with previous stories in THE SCIENCE OF COINCIDENCE(OR THE LAW OF TRULY LARGE Because It was not chance, or coincidence, or luck, or happenstance, or probability, or a fluke, or a twist of fate or fortune for that matter – at least not in the way that you understand it. It was science. The Science of Coincidence. Ladies and gentlemen, I will show you that I am simply a man against the odds, rather than a danger tothe
EARTH CLOSETS AND GREAT STINKS Earth closets and Great Stinks. I n the summer of 1855, the great Victorian scientist Michael Faraday took a boat trip on the Thames in London – but his was no pleasure cruise. He wrote to the Times describing his experience: “the whole of the river was an opaque, pale brown fluid”; “the smell was very bad”; and “near thebridges
LABLIT – THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE IN FICTION AND FACTTHE LABLIT LISTARCHIVEPEOPLECONTACTEXPERIMENTING WITH THE SENSESTHE OUTLIER The science of coincidence(or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Gavin Milnthorpe | 29 November 2020. Because it is Science that will be my chief witness today. Logic shall beABOUT LABLIT
About Lablit. LabLit.com is dedicated to real laboratory culture and to the portrayal and perceptions of that culture – science, scientists and labs – in fiction, the media and across popular culture. It does not generally deal with the genre of science fiction, except in essays which shed light on science in popular culture orrealistic
PEOPLE – LABLIT
João is an Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a Researcher in Reproductive Biology at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology. His first novel, in Portuguese, is Portland, Portugal (Afrontamento, 2007), and he writes frequent short fiction for LabLit. He is also quite interested in graphic novels(comics
LABLIT LIST
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.ABOUT LABLIT.COM
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.THE LABLIT LIST
Editor’s note: This list will be a continual work-in-progress; nominate your favorite work here. (We always have a dozen or so under consideration and updates take place about once or twice a year. Our next update is due in Spring 2021! Please note that ‘lab lit’ is not ‘science fiction’; briefly, lab lit fiction depicts realistic scientists as central characters and portrays fairlyCONTACT – LABLIT
Taking control of the narrative. Scene through a picture window. The science of coincidence. (or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Chapter Eight: The Sample. Interviews. Chapter Seven: The Institute. The Magnafan. The ghost of cells past: Part 4.THE MAGNAFAN
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present the next story in our Young Authors series, a collection of six pieces of short fiction written by pairs of American eighth-graders as part of a special English class devoted to laboratory literature.You can read all about this interesting project in the accompanying Editorial.Use the ‘Young Authors’ category to catch up with previous stories in THE SCIENCE OF COINCIDENCE(OR THE LAW OF TRULY LARGE Because It was not chance, or coincidence, or luck, or happenstance, or probability, or a fluke, or a twist of fate or fortune for that matter – at least not in the way that you understand it. It was science. The Science of Coincidence. Ladies and gentlemen, I will show you that I am simply a man against the odds, rather than a danger tothe
EARTH CLOSETS AND GREAT STINKS Earth closets and Great Stinks. I n the summer of 1855, the great Victorian scientist Michael Faraday took a boat trip on the Thames in London – but his was no pleasure cruise. He wrote to the Times describing his experience: “the whole of the river was an opaque, pale brown fluid”; “the smell was very bad”; and “near thebridges
PLAYS – LABLIT
Novels; Crossover novels; Films; Plays; TV; Blinded by the Sun. by Stephen Poliakoff Drama: Scientists squabble as cold fusion goes belly-up. Links: Amazon (UK) Copenhagen. by Michael Frayn Historical drama: Mr. and Mrs. Niels Bohr reminisce with Werner Heisenberg over the uncertainty of memory and quantum mechanics. Links: Amazon (UK) Les Palmes de M. SchutzTV PROGRAMS
Novels; Crossover novels; Films; Plays; TV; Numbers. USA TV series from CBS Thriller: An FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve crimes. Links: our article behind the show’s consultants • Official CBS site CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) USA TV series from CBS Thriller: Forensics detectives with refreshingly realistic scenes from labs, featuring scientists who talkTHE MAGNAFAN
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present the next story in our Young Authors series, a collection of six pieces of short fiction written by pairs of American eighth-graders as part of a special English class devoted to laboratory literature.You can read all about this interesting project in the accompanying Editorial.Use the ‘Young Authors’ category to catch up with previous stories inCROSSOVER NOVELS
Novels; Crossover novels; Films; Plays; TV; Science fiction or other genres with particularly realistic scientists Blood Music. by Greg Bear Thriller: Genetically engineered cells take over (admittedly in an over-the-top way, but the lab scenes are extremely realistic, hence the book’s inclusion here). Links: Amazon (UK) Jurassic Park FIFTEEN YEARS OF LABLIT.COM About the author Jennifer Rohn is a cell biologist at University College London and the founder and Editor of LabLit.com. She's the author of three lab lit novels, Experimental Heart, The Honest Look, and her latest, Cat Zero.She blogs about the scientific life at Mind The Gap, and she frequently appears in print, broadcast and in person as a science/lit/art pundit. LABLIT – PAGE 3 – THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE IN FICTION AND FACT Ah, these silly English men, Sabine thought as she drove down Long Road. They are so easily amused – it really wasn’t work at all. All she ever had to do was smile at them and they would do anythingshe asked.
THE GHOST OF CELLS PAST: PART 4 Robert got to the park. He wandered there aimlessly for a while, and then, tired out, sat down next to a small pond surrounded by tall trees; it was dark and a bit creepy, but also peaceful, the waterhalf-lit by a
THE GHOST OF CELLS PAST: PART 1 The ghost of cells past: Part 1. Editor’s note: We are pleased to present the first episode of a new four-part story by Deborah Flusberg, about a lab research project that suddenly gets personal. When people asked Robert why he wanted to go into biology research, he never mentioned his sister. TAKING CONTROL OF THE NARRATIVE Editor’s note: As we’ve often discussed on this site, one thing that authors of lab lit fiction often struggle with is finding publishing professionals interested in taking on the genre. Our regular contributor Rebecca Nesbit has had both fiction and non-fiction published by the traditional route, but here shares her experience with self-publication.SARAH GOODMAN
Sarah Goodman obtained her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Currently she is teaching quantum computing and working on LABLIT – THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE IN FICTION AND FACTTHE LABLIT LISTARCHIVEPEOPLECONTACTEXPERIMENTING WITH THE SENSESTHE OUTLIER The science of coincidence(or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Gavin Milnthorpe | 29 November 2020. Because it is Science that will be my chief witness today. Logic shall beABOUT LABLIT
About Lablit. LabLit.com is dedicated to real laboratory culture and to the portrayal and perceptions of that culture – science, scientists and labs – in fiction, the media and across popular culture. It does not generally deal with the genre of science fiction, except in essays which shed light on science in popular culture orrealistic
PEOPLE – LABLIT
João is an Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a Researcher in Reproductive Biology at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology. His first novel, in Portuguese, is Portland, Portugal (Afrontamento, 2007), and he writes frequent short fiction for LabLit. He is also quite interested in graphic novels(comics
LABLIT LIST
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.ABOUT LABLIT.COM
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.THE LABLIT LIST
Editor’s note: This list will be a continual work-in-progress; nominate your favorite work here. (We always have a dozen or so under consideration and updates take place about once or twice a year. Our next update is due in Spring 2021! Please note that ‘lab lit’ is not ‘science fiction’; briefly, lab lit fiction depicts realistic scientists as central characters and portrays fairlyCONTACT – LABLIT
Taking control of the narrative. Scene through a picture window. The science of coincidence. (or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Chapter Eight: The Sample. Interviews. Chapter Seven: The Institute. The Magnafan. The ghost of cells past: Part 4.THE MAGNAFAN
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present the next story in our Young Authors series, a collection of six pieces of short fiction written by pairs of American eighth-graders as part of a special English class devoted to laboratory literature.You can read all about this interesting project in the accompanying Editorial.Use the ‘Young Authors’ category to catch up with previous stories in THE SCIENCE OF COINCIDENCE(OR THE LAW OF TRULY LARGE Because It was not chance, or coincidence, or luck, or happenstance, or probability, or a fluke, or a twist of fate or fortune for that matter – at least not in the way that you understand it. It was science. The Science of Coincidence. Ladies and gentlemen, I will show you that I am simply a man against the odds, rather than a danger tothe
EARTH CLOSETS AND GREAT STINKS Earth closets and Great Stinks. I n the summer of 1855, the great Victorian scientist Michael Faraday took a boat trip on the Thames in London – but his was no pleasure cruise. He wrote to the Times describing his experience: “the whole of the river was an opaque, pale brown fluid”; “the smell was very bad”; and “near thebridges
LABLIT – THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE IN FICTION AND FACTTHE LABLIT LISTARCHIVEPEOPLECONTACTEXPERIMENTING WITH THE SENSESTHE OUTLIER The science of coincidence(or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Gavin Milnthorpe | 29 November 2020. Because it is Science that will be my chief witness today. Logic shall beABOUT LABLIT
About Lablit. LabLit.com is dedicated to real laboratory culture and to the portrayal and perceptions of that culture – science, scientists and labs – in fiction, the media and across popular culture. It does not generally deal with the genre of science fiction, except in essays which shed light on science in popular culture orrealistic
PEOPLE – LABLIT
João is an Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a Researcher in Reproductive Biology at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology. His first novel, in Portuguese, is Portland, Portugal (Afrontamento, 2007), and he writes frequent short fiction for LabLit. He is also quite interested in graphic novels(comics
LABLIT LIST
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.ABOUT LABLIT.COM
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.THE LABLIT LIST
Editor’s note: This list will be a continual work-in-progress; nominate your favorite work here. (We always have a dozen or so under consideration and updates take place about once or twice a year. Our next update is due in Spring 2021! Please note that ‘lab lit’ is not ‘science fiction’; briefly, lab lit fiction depicts realistic scientists as central characters and portrays fairlyCONTACT – LABLIT
Taking control of the narrative. Scene through a picture window. The science of coincidence. (or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Chapter Eight: The Sample. Interviews. Chapter Seven: The Institute. The Magnafan. The ghost of cells past: Part 4.THE MAGNAFAN
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present the next story in our Young Authors series, a collection of six pieces of short fiction written by pairs of American eighth-graders as part of a special English class devoted to laboratory literature.You can read all about this interesting project in the accompanying Editorial.Use the ‘Young Authors’ category to catch up with previous stories in THE SCIENCE OF COINCIDENCE(OR THE LAW OF TRULY LARGE Because It was not chance, or coincidence, or luck, or happenstance, or probability, or a fluke, or a twist of fate or fortune for that matter – at least not in the way that you understand it. It was science. The Science of Coincidence. Ladies and gentlemen, I will show you that I am simply a man against the odds, rather than a danger tothe
EARTH CLOSETS AND GREAT STINKS Earth closets and Great Stinks. I n the summer of 1855, the great Victorian scientist Michael Faraday took a boat trip on the Thames in London – but his was no pleasure cruise. He wrote to the Times describing his experience: “the whole of the river was an opaque, pale brown fluid”; “the smell was very bad”; and “near thebridges
PLAYS – LABLIT
Novels; Crossover novels; Films; Plays; TV; Blinded by the Sun. by Stephen Poliakoff Drama: Scientists squabble as cold fusion goes belly-up. Links: Amazon (UK) Copenhagen. by Michael Frayn Historical drama: Mr. and Mrs. Niels Bohr reminisce with Werner Heisenberg over the uncertainty of memory and quantum mechanics. Links: Amazon (UK) Les Palmes de M. SchutzTV PROGRAMS
Novels; Crossover novels; Films; Plays; TV; Numbers. USA TV series from CBS Thriller: An FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve crimes. Links: our article behind the show’s consultants • Official CBS site CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) USA TV series from CBS Thriller: Forensics detectives with refreshingly realistic scenes from labs, featuring scientists who talkTHE MAGNAFAN
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present the next story in our Young Authors series, a collection of six pieces of short fiction written by pairs of American eighth-graders as part of a special English class devoted to laboratory literature.You can read all about this interesting project in the accompanying Editorial.Use the ‘Young Authors’ category to catch up with previous stories inCROSSOVER NOVELS
Novels; Crossover novels; Films; Plays; TV; Science fiction or other genres with particularly realistic scientists Blood Music. by Greg Bear Thriller: Genetically engineered cells take over (admittedly in an over-the-top way, but the lab scenes are extremely realistic, hence the book’s inclusion here). Links: Amazon (UK) Jurassic Park FIFTEEN YEARS OF LABLIT.COM About the author Jennifer Rohn is a cell biologist at University College London and the founder and Editor of LabLit.com. She's the author of three lab lit novels, Experimental Heart, The Honest Look, and her latest, Cat Zero.She blogs about the scientific life at Mind The Gap, and she frequently appears in print, broadcast and in person as a science/lit/art pundit. LABLIT – PAGE 3 – THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE IN FICTION AND FACT Ah, these silly English men, Sabine thought as she drove down Long Road. They are so easily amused – it really wasn’t work at all. All she ever had to do was smile at them and they would do anythingshe asked.
THE GHOST OF CELLS PAST: PART 4 Robert got to the park. He wandered there aimlessly for a while, and then, tired out, sat down next to a small pond surrounded by tall trees; it was dark and a bit creepy, but also peaceful, the waterhalf-lit by a
THE GHOST OF CELLS PAST: PART 1 The ghost of cells past: Part 1. Editor’s note: We are pleased to present the first episode of a new four-part story by Deborah Flusberg, about a lab research project that suddenly gets personal. When people asked Robert why he wanted to go into biology research, he never mentioned his sister. TAKING CONTROL OF THE NARRATIVE Editor’s note: As we’ve often discussed on this site, one thing that authors of lab lit fiction often struggle with is finding publishing professionals interested in taking on the genre. Our regular contributor Rebecca Nesbit has had both fiction and non-fiction published by the traditional route, but here shares her experience with self-publication.SARAH GOODMAN
Sarah Goodman obtained her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Currently she is teaching quantum computing and working on LABLIT – THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE IN FICTION AND FACTTHE LABLIT LISTARCHIVEPEOPLECONTACTEXPERIMENTING WITH THE SENSESTHE OUTLIER The science of coincidence(or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Gavin Milnthorpe | 29 November 2020. Because it is Science that will be my chief witness today. Logic shall beABOUT LABLIT
About Lablit. LabLit.com is dedicated to real laboratory culture and to the portrayal and perceptions of that culture – science, scientists and labs – in fiction, the media and across popular culture. It does not generally deal with the genre of science fiction, except in essays which shed light on science in popular culture orrealistic
PEOPLE – LABLIT
João is an Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a Researcher in Reproductive Biology at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology. His first novel, in Portuguese, is Portland, Portugal (Afrontamento, 2007), and he writes frequent short fiction for LabLit. He is also quite interested in graphic novels(comics
LABLIT LIST
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.ABOUT LABLIT.COM
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise. THE SCIENCE OF COINCIDENCE(OR THE LAW OF TRULY LARGE Because It was not chance, or coincidence, or luck, or happenstance, or probability, or a fluke, or a twist of fate or fortune for that matter – at least not in the way that you understand it. It was science. The Science of Coincidence. Ladies and gentlemen, I will show you that I am simply a man against the odds, rather than a danger tothe
THE LABLIT LIST
Editor’s note: This list will be a continual work-in-progress; nominate your favorite work here. (We always have a dozen or so under consideration and updates take place about once or twice a year. Our next update is due in Spring 2021! Please note that ‘lab lit’ is not ‘science fiction’; briefly, lab lit fiction depicts realistic scientists as central characters and portrays fairlyCONTACT – LABLIT
Taking control of the narrative. Scene through a picture window. The science of coincidence. (or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Chapter Eight: The Sample. Interviews. Chapter Seven: The Institute. The Magnafan. The ghost of cells past: Part 4.THE MAGNAFAN
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present the next story in our Young Authors series, a collection of six pieces of short fiction written by pairs of American eighth-graders as part of a special English class devoted to laboratory literature.You can read all about this interesting project in the accompanying Editorial.Use the ‘Young Authors’ category to catch up with previous stories in EARTH CLOSETS AND GREAT STINKS Earth closets and Great Stinks. I n the summer of 1855, the great Victorian scientist Michael Faraday took a boat trip on the Thames in London – but his was no pleasure cruise. He wrote to the Times describing his experience: “the whole of the river was an opaque, pale brown fluid”; “the smell was very bad”; and “near thebridges
LABLIT – THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE IN FICTION AND FACTTHE LABLIT LISTARCHIVEPEOPLECONTACTEXPERIMENTING WITH THE SENSESTHE OUTLIER The science of coincidence(or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Gavin Milnthorpe | 29 November 2020. Because it is Science that will be my chief witness today. Logic shall beABOUT LABLIT
About Lablit. LabLit.com is dedicated to real laboratory culture and to the portrayal and perceptions of that culture – science, scientists and labs – in fiction, the media and across popular culture. It does not generally deal with the genre of science fiction, except in essays which shed light on science in popular culture orrealistic
PEOPLE – LABLIT
João is an Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a Researcher in Reproductive Biology at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology. His first novel, in Portuguese, is Portland, Portugal (Afrontamento, 2007), and he writes frequent short fiction for LabLit. He is also quite interested in graphic novels(comics
LABLIT LIST
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.ABOUT LABLIT.COM
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.THE LABLIT LIST
Editor’s note: This list will be a continual work-in-progress; nominate your favorite work here. (We always have a dozen or so under consideration and updates take place about once or twice a year. Our next update is due in Spring 2021! Please note that ‘lab lit’ is not ‘science fiction’; briefly, lab lit fiction depicts realistic scientists as central characters and portrays fairlyCONTACT – LABLIT
Taking control of the narrative. Scene through a picture window. The science of coincidence. (or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Chapter Eight: The Sample. Interviews. Chapter Seven: The Institute. The Magnafan. The ghost of cells past: Part 4.THE MAGNAFAN
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present the next story in our Young Authors series, a collection of six pieces of short fiction written by pairs of American eighth-graders as part of a special English class devoted to laboratory literature.You can read all about this interesting project in the accompanying Editorial.Use the ‘Young Authors’ category to catch up with previous stories in THE SCIENCE OF COINCIDENCE(OR THE LAW OF TRULY LARGE Because It was not chance, or coincidence, or luck, or happenstance, or probability, or a fluke, or a twist of fate or fortune for that matter – at least not in the way that you understand it. It was science. The Science of Coincidence. Ladies and gentlemen, I will show you that I am simply a man against the odds, rather than a danger tothe
EARTH CLOSETS AND GREAT STINKS Earth closets and Great Stinks. I n the summer of 1855, the great Victorian scientist Michael Faraday took a boat trip on the Thames in London – but his was no pleasure cruise. He wrote to the Times describing his experience: “the whole of the river was an opaque, pale brown fluid”; “the smell was very bad”; and “near thebridges
PLAYS – LABLIT
Novels; Crossover novels; Films; Plays; TV; Blinded by the Sun. by Stephen Poliakoff Drama: Scientists squabble as cold fusion goes belly-up. Links: Amazon (UK) Copenhagen. by Michael Frayn Historical drama: Mr. and Mrs. Niels Bohr reminisce with Werner Heisenberg over the uncertainty of memory and quantum mechanics. Links: Amazon (UK) Les Palmes de M. SchutzTV PROGRAMS
Novels; Crossover novels; Films; Plays; TV; Numbers. USA TV series from CBS Thriller: An FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve crimes. Links: our article behind the show’s consultants • Official CBS site CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) USA TV series from CBS Thriller: Forensics detectives with refreshingly realistic scenes from labs, featuring scientists who talkTHE MAGNAFAN
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present the next story in our Young Authors series, a collection of six pieces of short fiction written by pairs of American eighth-graders as part of a special English class devoted to laboratory literature.You can read all about this interesting project in the accompanying Editorial.Use the ‘Young Authors’ category to catch up with previous stories inCROSSOVER NOVELS
Novels; Crossover novels; Films; Plays; TV; Science fiction or other genres with particularly realistic scientists Blood Music. by Greg Bear Thriller: Genetically engineered cells take over (admittedly in an over-the-top way, but the lab scenes are extremely realistic, hence the book’s inclusion here). Links: Amazon (UK) Jurassic Park FIFTEEN YEARS OF LABLIT.COM About the author Jennifer Rohn is a cell biologist at University College London and the founder and Editor of LabLit.com. She's the author of three lab lit novels, Experimental Heart, The Honest Look, and her latest, Cat Zero.She blogs about the scientific life at Mind The Gap, and she frequently appears in print, broadcast and in person as a science/lit/art pundit. LABLIT – PAGE 3 – THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE IN FICTION AND FACT Ah, these silly English men, Sabine thought as she drove down Long Road. They are so easily amused – it really wasn’t work at all. All she ever had to do was smile at them and they would do anythingshe asked.
THE GHOST OF CELLS PAST: PART 4 Robert got to the park. He wandered there aimlessly for a while, and then, tired out, sat down next to a small pond surrounded by tall trees; it was dark and a bit creepy, but also peaceful, the waterhalf-lit by a
THE GHOST OF CELLS PAST: PART 1 The ghost of cells past: Part 1. Editor’s note: We are pleased to present the first episode of a new four-part story by Deborah Flusberg, about a lab research project that suddenly gets personal. When people asked Robert why he wanted to go into biology research, he never mentioned his sister. TAKING CONTROL OF THE NARRATIVE Editor’s note: As we’ve often discussed on this site, one thing that authors of lab lit fiction often struggle with is finding publishing professionals interested in taking on the genre. Our regular contributor Rebecca Nesbit has had both fiction and non-fiction published by the traditional route, but here shares her experience with self-publication.SARAH GOODMAN
Sarah Goodman obtained her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Currently she is teaching quantum computing and working on LABLIT – THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE IN FICTION AND FACTTHE LABLIT LISTARCHIVEPEOPLECONTACTEXPERIMENTING WITH THE SENSESTHE OUTLIER The science of coincidence(or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Gavin Milnthorpe | 29 November 2020. Because it is Science that will be my chief witness today. Logic shall beABOUT LABLIT
About Lablit. LabLit.com is dedicated to real laboratory culture and to the portrayal and perceptions of that culture – science, scientists and labs – in fiction, the media and across popular culture. It does not generally deal with the genre of science fiction, except in essays which shed light on science in popular culture orrealistic
PEOPLE – LABLIT
João is an Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a Researcher in Reproductive Biology at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology. His first novel, in Portuguese, is Portland, Portugal (Afrontamento, 2007), and he writes frequent short fiction for LabLit. He is also quite interested in graphic novels(comics
LABLIT LIST
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.ABOUT LABLIT.COM
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise. THE SCIENCE OF COINCIDENCE(OR THE LAW OF TRULY LARGE Because It was not chance, or coincidence, or luck, or happenstance, or probability, or a fluke, or a twist of fate or fortune for that matter – at least not in the way that you understand it. It was science. The Science of Coincidence. Ladies and gentlemen, I will show you that I am simply a man against the odds, rather than a danger tothe
THE LABLIT LIST
Editor’s note: This list will be a continual work-in-progress; nominate your favorite work here. (We always have a dozen or so under consideration and updates take place about once or twice a year. Our next update is due in Spring 2021! Please note that ‘lab lit’ is not ‘science fiction’; briefly, lab lit fiction depicts realistic scientists as central characters and portrays fairlyCONTACT – LABLIT
Taking control of the narrative. Scene through a picture window. The science of coincidence. (or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Chapter Eight: The Sample. Interviews. Chapter Seven: The Institute. The Magnafan. The ghost of cells past: Part 4.THE MAGNAFAN
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present the next story in our Young Authors series, a collection of six pieces of short fiction written by pairs of American eighth-graders as part of a special English class devoted to laboratory literature.You can read all about this interesting project in the accompanying Editorial.Use the ‘Young Authors’ category to catch up with previous stories in EARTH CLOSETS AND GREAT STINKS Earth closets and Great Stinks. I n the summer of 1855, the great Victorian scientist Michael Faraday took a boat trip on the Thames in London – but his was no pleasure cruise. He wrote to the Times describing his experience: “the whole of the river was an opaque, pale brown fluid”; “the smell was very bad”; and “near thebridges
LABLIT – THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE IN FICTION AND FACTTHE LABLIT LISTARCHIVEPEOPLECONTACTEXPERIMENTING WITH THE SENSESTHE OUTLIER The science of coincidence(or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Gavin Milnthorpe | 29 November 2020. Because it is Science that will be my chief witness today. Logic shall beABOUT LABLIT
About Lablit. LabLit.com is dedicated to real laboratory culture and to the portrayal and perceptions of that culture – science, scientists and labs – in fiction, the media and across popular culture. It does not generally deal with the genre of science fiction, except in essays which shed light on science in popular culture orrealistic
PEOPLE – LABLIT
João is an Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a Researcher in Reproductive Biology at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology. His first novel, in Portuguese, is Portland, Portugal (Afrontamento, 2007), and he writes frequent short fiction for LabLit. He is also quite interested in graphic novels(comics
LABLIT LIST
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.ABOUT LABLIT.COM
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise. THE SCIENCE OF COINCIDENCE(OR THE LAW OF TRULY LARGE Because It was not chance, or coincidence, or luck, or happenstance, or probability, or a fluke, or a twist of fate or fortune for that matter – at least not in the way that you understand it. It was science. The Science of Coincidence. Ladies and gentlemen, I will show you that I am simply a man against the odds, rather than a danger tothe
THE LABLIT LIST
Editor’s note: This list will be a continual work-in-progress; nominate your favorite work here. (We always have a dozen or so under consideration and updates take place about once or twice a year. Our next update is due in Spring 2021! Please note that ‘lab lit’ is not ‘science fiction’; briefly, lab lit fiction depicts realistic scientists as central characters and portrays fairlyCONTACT – LABLIT
Taking control of the narrative. Scene through a picture window. The science of coincidence. (or the Law of Truly Large Numbers) Chapter Eight: The Sample. Interviews. Chapter Seven: The Institute. The Magnafan. The ghost of cells past: Part 4.THE MAGNAFAN
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present the next story in our Young Authors series, a collection of six pieces of short fiction written by pairs of American eighth-graders as part of a special English class devoted to laboratory literature.You can read all about this interesting project in the accompanying Editorial.Use the ‘Young Authors’ category to catch up with previous stories in EARTH CLOSETS AND GREAT STINKS Earth closets and Great Stinks. I n the summer of 1855, the great Victorian scientist Michael Faraday took a boat trip on the Thames in London – but his was no pleasure cruise. He wrote to the Times describing his experience: “the whole of the river was an opaque, pale brown fluid”; “the smell was very bad”; and “near thebridges
PLAYS – LABLIT
Novels; Crossover novels; Films; Plays; TV; Blinded by the Sun. by Stephen Poliakoff Drama: Scientists squabble as cold fusion goes belly-up. Links: Amazon (UK) Copenhagen. by Michael Frayn Historical drama: Mr. and Mrs. Niels Bohr reminisce with Werner Heisenberg over the uncertainty of memory and quantum mechanics. Links: Amazon (UK) Les Palmes de M. SchutzTV PROGRAMS
Novels; Crossover novels; Films; Plays; TV; Numbers. USA TV series from CBS Thriller: An FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve crimes. Links: our article behind the show’s consultants • Official CBS site CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) USA TV series from CBS Thriller: Forensics detectives with refreshingly realistic scenes from labs, featuring scientists who talkTHE MAGNAFAN
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present the next story in our Young Authors series, a collection of six pieces of short fiction written by pairs of American eighth-graders as part of a special English class devoted to laboratory literature.You can read all about this interesting project in the accompanying Editorial.Use the ‘Young Authors’ category to catch up with previous stories inCROSSOVER NOVELS
Novels; Crossover novels; Films; Plays; TV; Science fiction or other genres with particularly realistic scientists Blood Music. by Greg Bear Thriller: Genetically engineered cells take over (admittedly in an over-the-top way, but the lab scenes are extremely realistic, hence the book’s inclusion here). Links: Amazon (UK) Jurassic Park FIFTEEN YEARS OF LABLIT.COM About the author Jennifer Rohn is a cell biologist at University College London and the founder and Editor of LabLit.com. She's the author of three lab lit novels, Experimental Heart, The Honest Look, and her latest, Cat Zero.She blogs about the scientific life at Mind The Gap, and she frequently appears in print, broadcast and in person as a science/lit/art pundit. LABLIT – PAGE 3 – THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE IN FICTION AND FACT Ah, these silly English men, Sabine thought as she drove down Long Road. They are so easily amused – it really wasn’t work at all. All she ever had to do was smile at them and they would do anythingshe asked.
THE GHOST OF CELLS PAST: PART 4 Robert got to the park. He wandered there aimlessly for a while, and then, tired out, sat down next to a small pond surrounded by tall trees; it was dark and a bit creepy, but also peaceful, the waterhalf-lit by a
THE GHOST OF CELLS PAST: PART 1 The ghost of cells past: Part 1. Editor’s note: We are pleased to present the first episode of a new four-part story by Deborah Flusberg, about a lab research project that suddenly gets personal. When people asked Robert why he wanted to go into biology research, he never mentioned his sister. TAKING CONTROL OF THE NARRATIVE Editor’s note: As we’ve often discussed on this site, one thing that authors of lab lit fiction often struggle with is finding publishing professionals interested in taking on the genre. Our regular contributor Rebecca Nesbit has had both fiction and non-fiction published by the traditional route, but here shares her experience with self-publication.SARAH GOODMAN
Sarah Goodman obtained her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Currently she is teaching quantum computing and working on LABLIT – THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE IN FICTION AND FACTTHE LABLIT LISTARCHIVEPEOPLECONTACTEXPERIMENTING WITH THE SENSESTHE OUTLIER I read about the case in an old copy of New Scientist, and pinned the article to my noticeboard. My thoughts kept turning to the implications, for our criminal justice system and for the peoplearound him.
ABOUT LABLIT
“LabLit.com founder and editor, Jenny Rohn, is prone to getting excited over ‘hard-core lab scenes.’ “ LabLit.com picks another great crop of beach reads for NPRLABLIT LIST
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.PEOPLE – LABLIT
“LabLit.com founder and editor, Jenny Rohn, is prone to getting excited over ‘hard-core lab scenes.’ “ LabLit.com picks another great crop of beach reads for NPRABOUT LABLIT.COM
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.THE LABLIT LIST
Editor’s note: This list will be a continual work-in-progress; nominate your favorite work here. (We always have a dozen or so under consideration and updates take place about once or twice a year. Our next update is due in Spring 2021! Please note that ‘lab lit’ is not ‘science fiction’; briefly, lab lit fiction depicts realistic scientists as central characters and portrays fairlyCONTACT – LABLIT
“LabLit.com founder and editor, Jenny Rohn, is prone to getting excited over ‘hard-core lab scenes.’ “ LabLit.com picks another great crop of beach reads for NPRTHE MAGNAFAN
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present the next story in our Young Authors series, a collection of six pieces of short fiction written by pairs of American eighth-graders as part of a special English class devoted to laboratory literature.You can read all about this interesting project in the accompanying Editorial.Use the ‘Young Authors’ category to catch up with previous stories in THE SCIENCE OF COINCIDENCE(OR THE LAW OF TRULY LARGE It was a cosmic convergence of the randomstatistically absurd and empirically illogical I’ll grant you, but still possible and therefore subject to the rigours of science EARTH CLOSETS AND GREAT STINKS I n the summer of 1855, the great Victorian scientist Michael Faraday took a boat trip on the Thames in London – but his was no pleasure cruise. He wrote to the Times describing his experience: “the whole of the river was an opaque, pale brown fluid”; “the smell was very bad”; and “near the bridges the feculence rolled up in clouds”. ”. During the trip, he dropped pieces of LABLIT – THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE IN FICTION AND FACTTHE LABLIT LISTARCHIVEPEOPLECONTACTEXPERIMENTING WITH THE SENSESTHE OUTLIER I read about the case in an old copy of New Scientist, and pinned the article to my noticeboard. My thoughts kept turning to the implications, for our criminal justice system and for the peoplearound him.
ABOUT LABLIT
“LabLit.com founder and editor, Jenny Rohn, is prone to getting excited over ‘hard-core lab scenes.’ “ LabLit.com picks another great crop of beach reads for NPRLABLIT LIST
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.PEOPLE – LABLIT
“LabLit.com founder and editor, Jenny Rohn, is prone to getting excited over ‘hard-core lab scenes.’ “ LabLit.com picks another great crop of beach reads for NPRABOUT LABLIT.COM
LabLit.com is dedicated to the portrayal and perceptions of science culture – science, scientists and laboratories - in fiction, the media and across popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and surprise.THE LABLIT LIST
Editor’s note: This list will be a continual work-in-progress; nominate your favorite work here. (We always have a dozen or so under consideration and updates take place about once or twice a year. Our next update is due in Spring 2021! Please note that ‘lab lit’ is not ‘science fiction’; briefly, lab lit fiction depicts realistic scientists as central characters and portrays fairlyCONTACT – LABLIT
“LabLit.com founder and editor, Jenny Rohn, is prone to getting excited over ‘hard-core lab scenes.’ “ LabLit.com picks another great crop of beach reads for NPRTHE MAGNAFAN
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present the next story in our Young Authors series, a collection of six pieces of short fiction written by pairs of American eighth-graders as part of a special English class devoted to laboratory literature.You can read all about this interesting project in the accompanying Editorial.Use the ‘Young Authors’ category to catch up with previous stories in THE SCIENCE OF COINCIDENCE(OR THE LAW OF TRULY LARGE It was a cosmic convergence of the randomstatistically absurd and empirically illogical I’ll grant you, but still possible and therefore subject to the rigours of science EARTH CLOSETS AND GREAT STINKS I n the summer of 1855, the great Victorian scientist Michael Faraday took a boat trip on the Thames in London – but his was no pleasure cruise. He wrote to the Times describing his experience: “the whole of the river was an opaque, pale brown fluid”; “the smell was very bad”; and “near the bridges the feculence rolled up in clouds”. ”. During the trip, he dropped pieces ofPLAYS – LABLIT
Novels; Crossover novels; Films; Plays; TV; Blinded by the Sun. by Stephen Poliakoff Drama: Scientists squabble as cold fusion goes belly-up. Links: Amazon (UK) Copenhagen. by Michael Frayn Historical drama: Mr. and Mrs. Niels Bohr reminisce with Werner Heisenberg over the uncertainty of memory and quantum mechanics. Links: Amazon (UK) Les Palmes de M. SchutzTV PROGRAMS
Novels; Crossover novels; Films; Plays; TV; Numbers. USA TV series from CBS Thriller: An FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve crimes. Links: our article behind the show’s consultants • Official CBS site CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) USA TV series from CBS Thriller: Forensics detectives with refreshingly realistic scenes from labs, featuring scientists who talkTHE MAGNAFAN
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present the next story in our Young Authors series, a collection of six pieces of short fiction written by pairs of American eighth-graders as part of a special English class devoted to laboratory literature.You can read all about this interesting project in the accompanying Editorial.Use the ‘Young Authors’ category to catch up with previous stories inCROSSOVER NOVELS
Novels; Crossover novels; Films; Plays; TV; Science fiction or other genres with particularly realistic scientists Blood Music. by Greg Bear Thriller: Genetically engineered cells take over (admittedly in an over-the-top way, but the lab scenes are extremely realistic, hence the book’s inclusion here). Links: Amazon (UK) Jurassic Park FIFTEEN YEARS OF LABLIT.COM About the author Jennifer Rohn is a cell biologist at University College London and the founder and Editor of LabLit.com. She's the author of three lab lit novels, Experimental Heart, The Honest Look, and her latest, Cat Zero.She blogs about the scientific life at Mind The Gap, and she frequently appears in print, broadcast and in person as a science/lit/art pundit. LABLIT – PAGE 3 – THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE IN FICTION AND FACT Ah, these silly English men, Sabine thought as she drove down Long Road. They are so easily amused – it really wasn’t work at all. All she ever had to do was smile at them and they would do anythingshe asked.
THE GHOST OF CELLS PAST: PART 4 Robert got to the park. He wandered there aimlessly for a while, and then, tired out, sat down next to a small pond surrounded by tall trees; it was dark and a bit creepy, but also peaceful, the waterhalf-lit by a
THE GHOST OF CELLS PAST: PART 1 Editor’s note: We are pleased to present the first episode of a new four-part story by Deborah Flusberg, about a lab research project that suddenly gets personal. When people asked Robert why he wanted to go into biology research, he never mentioned his sister. He didn’t talk about the week when she had gotten a high fever and had to be taken to the hospital, staying there for what felt TAKING CONTROL OF THE NARRATIVE Editor’s note: As we’ve often discussed on this site, one thing that authors of lab lit fiction often struggle with is finding publishing professionals interested in taking on the genre. Our regular contributor Rebecca Nesbit has had both fiction and non-fiction published by the traditional route, but here shares her experience with self-publication.SARAH GOODMAN
Sarah Goodman obtained her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Currently she is teaching quantum computing and working on Jump to site navigation the culture of science in fiction & fact -------------------------*
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THE GHOST OF CELLS PAST, PART 2 From the LabLit short story series FICTION: Deborah Flusberg*
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A Momentary Lapse of Reason, Chapter 4 FICTION: Richard P. Grant*
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A Momentary Lapse of Reason, Chapter 3 FICTION: Richard P. Grant*
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BOILING THE OCEAN
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RAIN DOES NOT STOP PLAY A shaky tale of the rail FICTION: Helen-Frances Pilkington*
THE LEAGUE OF IMAGINARY CATS From the Lab Lit short story series FICTION: Richard Marshall*
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THE GHOST OF CELLS PAST, PART 1 From the LabLit short story series FICTION: Deborah Flusberg*
THE DANGERS OF YELLOWSTONE From the Lab Lit Young Authors series FICTION: Sophia N. and Colette G.*
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A Momentary Lapse of Reason, Chapter 5 FICTION: Richard P. Grant*
FROM THE COLLINS INDUSTRIES ARCHIVES The Lab Lit Young Authors series FICTION: Selim U. and Kyungsoo C.*
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NO ONE HERE BUT US CHICKENS A cancer eureka moment FICTION: Jennifer Rohn*
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"LABLIT.COM FOUNDER AND EDITOR, JENNY ROHN, IS PRONE TO GETTING EXCITED OVER 'HARD-CORE LAB SCENES.' " LabLit.com picks another great crop of beach reads for NPR*
"THESE SUMMER READS HAVE SCIENTISTS AT THEIR HEART" Interview of LabLit.com's editor on NPR*
"IT'S A GREAT VENUE FOR ASPIRING AUTHORS TO PUBLISH THEIR FICTIONABOUT SCIENTISTS"
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NOVELS ABOUT SCIENTISTS HIGHLIGHT PASSION AND (SOMETIMES) FAILURE Interview of LabLit.com's editor on NPR*
LAB LIT - A LESSER-KNOWN LITERARY GENRE THAT TRIES TO PORTRAY SCIENTISTS REALISTICALLY, BEYOND THE CLASSIC LAB COAT STEREOTYPES Science in fiction featured in _Nature Physics_*
SCIENTISTS IN SPACE - AND BEYOND Jenny talks lab lit fiction with Mariella Frostrup on Open Book, BBCRadio 4
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