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Nature 451, 128 (10 January 2008) | doi:10.1038/451128a; Published online 9 January 2008

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From bench to book

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Web publishing and marketing might put more science into fiction and attract new readers.

BOOK REVIEWEDA Version of the Truth

by Jennifer Kaufman & Karen Mack

Delacorte Press: 2008. 336 pp. $24

BOOK REVIEWEDThe Gift: Discovery, Treachery & Revenge

by Jon Kalb

Special Delivery Books: 2007. 140 pp. £7

BOOK REVIEWEDThe Expeditions

by Karl Iagnemma

Dial Press: 2008. 336 pp. $24

  In a darwinian scrum for the attention of an increasingly distracted audience, authors who want to write fiction about science, but not straight science fiction, have their work cut out. The gates of publication are typically guarded by humanities graduates who may have no scientific affinity.