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    <title>Nature Network - science fiction</title>
    <description>The latest taggings for science fiction</description>
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      <title>Science fiction names: the good, the bad and the uggh!</title>
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        <![CDATA[Brian Clegg - Looking at the names and made up words that occur in science fiction, they seem to divide roughly into four types. First there's the feeble. These are very common among second rate science fiction writers, particularly pre-1960s. The best example]]>
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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 big picture: Star trek II: the wrath of Khan</title>
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        <![CDATA[Li Kim Lee - The RI and SFX magazine are teaming up to bring you classic science fiction on the big screen in the RI theatre. Each month the editors of SFX will choose and introduce a sci-fi gem you owe it to yourself]]>
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      <title>Second Nature Event: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science</title>
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        <![CDATA[Joanna Scott - On Monday we welcome Professor Mark Brake and Reverend Neil Hook to Second Nature. !http://www.nature.com/secondnature/images/archive_detail/featured_event.jpg! _Since its emergence in the seventeenth century, science fiction has been a sustained, coherent and subversive check on the promises and pitfalls of science. In]]>
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      <title>"Blood music" by Greg Bear</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - I have just obtained a copy of "Blood Music" by Greg Bear which was "recommended by Henry":http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/UBDB8EA98/2008/03/30/new-theme-for-this-blog#comment-form. In this book, Virgil Ulam, a molecular biologist, develops "intelligent cellular matter". The company he works for orders to destroy it, but he]]>
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      <title>Chris Surridge</title>
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        <![CDATA[Chris Surridge - ]]>
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      <title>Arthur C Clarke - An Appreciation</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - It was "Sam Frankel":http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/sefrankel/2008/03/19/goodbye-to-arthur-c-clarke who first alerted me to the death of Sir Arthur C Clarke. I'd like to add two personal recollections. A while ago I wrote a "review of the film _Independence Day_":http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v382/n6593/pdf/382681a0.pdf bewailing the fact that cinema-goers]]>
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      <title>Out of this world book day</title>
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        <![CDATA[Brian Clegg - "One of the other Nature Network bloggers":http://network.nature.com/forums/nnbloggername/1149?page=1#reply-2987 has suggested blogging for World Book Day, today 6 March. (I gather, ironically, this is only World Book Day here in the UK and one or two other places, as the official date]]>
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      <title>Hurrah for Starship Troopers</title>
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        <![CDATA[Brian Clegg - Last Saturday night I had to wait for someone into the early hours of the morning. Flipping though the TV channels I landed on the movie _Starship Troopers_. I have always avoided this because of its poor reputation and it]]>
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      <title>Howard Ratner</title>
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        <![CDATA[Howard Ratner - ]]>
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