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Nature 448, 18-21 (5 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/448018a; Published online 4 July 2007
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The biologists strike back
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Time machines, spaceships, atomic blasters — the icons of science fiction tend to come from the physical sciences. But science fiction has a biological side too, finding drama and pathos in everything from alien evolution to the paradoxes of consciousness. Nature brought together four science-fiction writers with a background in the biological sciences to talk about life-science fiction.
Who's whoNature has given biologists a lot of weird things to study — how easy is it making aliens that are even weirder?
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