LabLit in the news
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"[A] genre of serious fiction with a snappy new name: lab lit...the webzine LabLit.com...has “Lab Lit Lists” for dozens of novels, films, plays and TV shows
The New York Times likes LabLit.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/science/in-lab-lit-fiction-meets-science-of-the-real-world.html?_r=0 -
Forget the flying car - where's my food rehydrator?
Kitsune-san of Sci-Fi Bloggers muses about fictional tech made reality -
'Lab lit' is a chance to show what we're really like
The New Scientist talks to Jenny
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/bigwideworld/2012/01/lab-lit---a-chance-to-show-what-were-really-like.html -
Light reading
LabLit helps judge Diamond's science short story competition
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Dedicated to "writing about the science environment, stories that take place in the lab"
51stories.com recommends Lablit.com
http://51stories.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/lablit-jennifer-rohns-the-honest-look/ -
"A clever website...LabLit.com breaks new ground in its portrayal of science and scientists"
BioTechniques Webwatch recommends us
http://www.biotechniques.com/news/biotechniquesNews/biotechniques-302213.html -
"Another example of 'lab lit' is Experimental Heart...which I’ll put on my 'to read' list"
- The Boston Globe gets into science novels
http://boston.com/community/blogs/creative_type/2010/08/the_plot_usually_goes_like.html -
"[Scientists] are usually cast as troublemakers and hardly ever get to be true Hollywood heroes"
Jenny dissects the science behind the movie 'Splice' for BBC News
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"Science is a great topic for a novel"
Interview of LabLit's editor in Lab Times
http://www.lab-times.org/labtimes/issues/lt2010/lt04/lt_2010_04_24_29.pdf -
A lab lit renaissance?
Jenny's essay in Nature about why science in fiction seems on the rise
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v465/n7298/full/465552a.html -
"The loveliness of the Lab Lit List"
Author Michael Byers recommends our collection of science novels
http://plutovian.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/the-loveliness-of-lab-lit/ -
"Science is only one side of the story"
Jenny from LabLit interviews Billy Bragg for Nature news
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100419/full/news.2010.191.html -
"It is indisputably a novel, but it is unapologetically educational"
- LabLit's editor reviews a new math lit book in Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v460/n7254/full/460461b.html -
"[Lab lit novels] are not just entertaining tales of biologists at work; they also make the reader think about the unique issues"
Nature Methods recommends LabLit.com
http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v6/n7/full/nmeth0709-471.html -
"[One of] 20 great websites that every scientist, engineering, or geek-at-heart ought to know about"
Baltimore Science News Examiner on LabLit.com
http://www.examiner.com/x-6378-Baltimore-Science-News-Examiner~y2009m6d8-Top-20-websites-every-scientist-or-engineer-ought-to-know -
"This scientific novel can't be put down"
Science magazine recommends Experimental Heart
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/324/5932/1267 -
"An excellent addition to the newly-identified genre known as LabLit"
Experimental Heart reviewed in Living the Scientific Life
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/04/experimental_heart.php -
"Rohn has taken a world that is mysterious and often ignored and placed it front and center...a truly fresh voice"
Experimental Heart reviewed in The Virginia Quarterly Review
http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2009/spring/book-notes/ -
"[A]ll the well-loved aspects of a research laboratory"
Experimental Heart reviewed in The Biochemist
http://www.biochemist.org/reviews/page.htm?item=2402 -
"[C]heck out [LabLit.com] for more reasons to welcome science to literature"
Cell
http://www.cell.com/fulltext/S0092-8674(08)01571-7 -
"[W]here literary scientists...can find like-minded people"
Chemistry World on LabLit.com
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Issues/2008/December/Editorial.asp -
"Conspiracy at the bench"
LabLit's editor's debut novel reviewed in Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7222/full/456575b.html -
"Imprisoned by intelligence"
LabLit's editor reviews a new novel in Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7221/full/456446a.html -
"Fictional quantum conspiracy"
LabLit's editor reviews a new novel in Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v454/n7204/full/454582a.html -
What is LabLit.com?
Learn more on the Guardian's 'Science Weekly' podcast
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/03/science_weekly_for_march_17_sc.html -
"From bench to book"
LabLit's editor reviews 3 novels in Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7175/full/451128a.html -
Behind the scenes
Q&A of LabLit's editor in Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7175/full/7175ixb.html -
"Image and imagination: overhauling the reputation of scientists"
LabLit's editor in Laboratory News
http://www.labnews.co.uk/laboratory_article.php/2603/5/image-and-imagination:-overhauling-the-reputation-of-scientists -
"LabLit is all about encouraging the use of realistic depictions of science and scientists in realistic fiction"
Scott Keir, Nature Network London
http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/scottkeir/2007/09/29/lab-lit-caf-sci -
Why aren't white coats sexy?
LabLit's editor writes in The Biochemist
http://www.biochemist.org/bio/02902/0028/029020028.pdf -
"It's a wonderful venture, and a topic of the most resonant importance"
novelist Richard Powers on LabLit.com
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/mfa/content/faculty/rpowers.shtml -
"FUN: Still life, with test tube"
Science magazine recommends LabLit
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/311/5766/1353e -
Experimental fiction
LabLit's editor talks fiction in Nature
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"A light touch and some panache"
LabLit reviewed by The Biochemist
http://www.biochemist.org/bio/02806/0048/028060048.pdf