{"id":597,"date":"2006-01-25T14:13:45","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T19:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/01\/25\/crank-up-your-word-processors\/"},"modified":"2006-01-25T14:13:45","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T19:13:45","slug":"crank-up-your-word-processors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/25\/crank-up-your-word-processors\/","title":{"rendered":"Crank up your word processors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure we have a slew of budding Pynchons and Stoppards out there in the CV audience.  Here&#8217;s your chance to break into the big time:  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedmagazine.com\/news\/2006\/01\/second_annual_fiction_suppleme.php\">Second Annual Seed Magazine Fiction Supplement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the June\/July issue Seed will publish its Second Annual Fiction Supplement.  We are not looking for traditional Sci-Fi &#8212; we are looking for fiction that reflects the significant role science plays in our culture; fiction that uncovers the rich narratives in science; and fiction wherein scientists are fallible and human. We are looking for Science-In-Fiction, Fictional Science and Scientific Fiction &#8212; in the tradition of Andrea Barrett, Richard Powers, Margaret Atwood and Alan Lightman, writing that brings new meaning to our understanding of Science Fiction. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Scientists are fallible and human?  Sorry, can&#8217;t help them there.   Remember, if anyone who reads this post goes off and writes a story that gets into the magazine, we want to hear about it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update:<\/em>  Apparently we&#8217;re talking about an entire genre of fiction here &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v439\/n7074\/full\/439269a.html\">LabLit.<\/a>  (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/grrlscientist\/2006\/01\/what_is_lablit.php\">grrlscientist<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure we have a slew of budding Pynchons and Stoppards out there in the CV audience. Here&#8217;s your chance to break into the big time: the Second Annual Seed Magazine Fiction Supplement. In the June\/July issue Seed will publish its Second Annual Fiction Supplement. We are not looking for traditional Sci-Fi &#8212; we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-society","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}