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• The invisible physicist

  A three-part thriller from the LabLit short story series
  Liesbeth Venema

• Transforming science into story

  A four-part essay on science in fiction
  Jennifer Cryer

• Damned souls and statistics

  From the LabLit short story series
  Robert Dawson

• Science and spirituality

  the gospel according to Sagan
  Martin Griffiths & Carlos Oliveira

• The Waterstone's Challenge

  A two-part experiment in book marketing
  Jennifer Rohn

• The Third Component

  A scientist at loose ends after earning her PhD sets off to Russia in search of a missing piece of her family's past
  Alison Christy

• Suit

  a two-part story about a scientist's unusual purchase
  João Ramalho-Santos

• Heat

  a three-part story about an ex-scientist who stumbles over her past in a very unexpected place
  João Ramalho-Santos

• The Experiment

  A two-part story about one scientist's significant sabbatical
  João Ramalho-Santos

• Private Investigations

  The adventures of a very special scientist-for-hire
  rpg

• Lab Rats

  Robin Plevin

• Watching Shadows

  From the LabLit short story series
  Harrison Bae Wein

• Flights of fancy

  How novelists inspired real-life spaceflight
  Martin Griffiths

• Tribute

  From the LabLit short story series
  João Ramalho-Santos

• By The Sea

  Henry Gee

• A quest towards self-publication

  Frank Ryan

• The Tantalus Letters

  Laura Otis

• Blinded by Science

  The Amazing Adventures of the Coommassie Blue Kid
  Harrison Bae Wein

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    Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson

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  • Bad cop

    Ben Goldacre defrocks the pseudoscientists

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    Lewis Wolpert ponders fictional science bad guys

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    Martin Raff recalls a childhood bust-up

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  • Sex in the lab

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• Latest blogs

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• In the news

  • "[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

  • 'Lab lit' is a chance to show what we're really like

    The New Scientist talks to Jenny

  • Light reading

    LabLit helps judge Diamond's science short story competition

  • Dedicated to "writing about the science environment, stories that take place in the lab"

    51stories.com recommends Lablit.com

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    BioTechniques Webwatch recommends us

  • "Another example of 'lab lit' is Experimental Heart...which I’ll put on my 'to read' list"

    - The Boston Globe gets into science novels

  • "[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

  • "Science is a great topic for a novel"

    Interview of LabLit's editor in Lab Times

  • A lab lit renaissance?

    Jenny's essay in Nature about why science in fiction seems on the rise

  • "The loveliness of the Lab Lit List"

    Author Michael Byers recommends our collection of science novels

  • "Science is only one side of the story"

    Jenny from LabLit interviews Billy Bragg for Nature news

  • "[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

  • "[One of] 20 great websites that every scientist, engineering, or geek-at-heart ought to know about"

    Baltimore Science News Examiner on LabLit.com

  • "[C]heck out [LabLit.com] for more reasons to welcome science to literature"

    Cell

  • "[W]here literary scientists...can find like-minded people"

    Chemistry World on LabLit.com

  • What is LabLit.com?

    Learn more on the Guardian's 'Science Weekly' podcast

  • "It's a wonderful venture, and a topic of the most resonant importance"

    novelist Richard Powers on LabLit.com

  • "FUN: Still life, with test tube"

    Science magazine recommends LabLit

  • "A light touch and some panache"

    LabLit reviewed by The Biochemist

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