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    <title>Nature Network - fiction</title>
    <description>The latest taggings for fiction</description>
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      <title>Fiction vs Non-Fiction - all is revealed</title>
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        <![CDATA[Brian Clegg - As someone with a fair number of published books, I'm quite often asked for advice by writers just beginning on the slippery slope. Although all my published books are non-fiction, more than half of those who approach me want to]]>
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      <title>Is this the real world? Is this just fantasy?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Brian Clegg - ... in the words of a popular beat combo. I have recently been inspired back into reading science fiction by the long running discussion of "Philip Ball's The Sun and Moon Corrupted":http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/UE19877E8/2008/05/26/in-which-i-appreciate-a-good-geeky-metaphor-or-two#comment-9932 - I suppose SF is a natural reading]]>
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      <title>Grant review process in Futures</title>
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        <![CDATA[Cath Ennis - This week's entry in _Futures_, Nature's short fiction series, is about automated grant writing and review - good stuff! Available "here":http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7196/full/453822a.html if you have a subscription.]]>
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      <title>In which I appreciate a good geeky metaphor or two</title>
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        <![CDATA[Jennifer Rohn - What, you may ask, is a rainy bank holiday weekend good for? I've have plenty to do in my self-inflicted rota of -Purgatory- extracurricular tasks, such as preparing the next issue of "LabLit":http://www.lablit.com, giving my novel one final polish before]]>
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      <title>Telling Stories</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - Now, just a quickie, before I go. For eight years, on and off (mostly off) I've edited the _Futures_ series of SF shorts in _Nature_ (and also _Nature Physics_). Quite a few examples of our past output have been collected]]>
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      <title>The fiction lab</title>
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        <![CDATA[Li Kim Lee - Scientific fiction for the height of summer. Jennifer Rohn of Lablit.com presides over a monthly evening dedicated to great fiction books that feature science at their heart. Check this website for each month's selection, then drop into our bar to]]>
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      <title>Did you know London had a hospital for mesmerism?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - !{float:right;padding-left:10px}http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Q2C0P%2B-EL._SL500_AA240_.jpg! I had lunch yesterday with Lee Jackson webmaster of the peerless "Victorian London":http://www.victorianlondon.org/ website. His forthcoming novel, "The Mesmerist’s Apprentice":http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mesmerists-Apprentice-L-M-Jackson/dp/0434015539/ref=pd_sbs_b_title_3, concerns a 19th Century quack who uses mesmeric techniques to assist in surgery and childbirth. It’s a cracking read,]]>
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      <title>Plotting a role for scientists in fiction</title>
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        <![CDATA[Corie Lok - Roboticist "Karl Iagnemma":http://web.mit.edu/mobility/people/ is driven to write fiction. When he was working on his PhD thesis in engineering at MIT, he was also writing short stories at night. Those stories later would be compiled in his first book, _On the]]>
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      <title>Trumpets, own, for the blowing of</title>
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        <![CDATA[Richard Grant - I should like to point m'learned colleagues, who if they don't know about it damn well should, at "http://lablit.com/":http://lablit.com/ . It is a small, but important battle in the war on ignorance. And I am not entirely disinterested: I'll just]]>
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      <title>Predictive complications</title>
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        <![CDATA[Nikolaus Oberprieler - _Fictional short story_ by Nikolaus Oberprieler It was one of those great days where it was the most exciting thing to be a research scientist. John could sense this nervous feeling in his stomach, a slight tickling sensation. He was]]>
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