Lablit – The culture of science in fiction and fact

Rock bottom

Zöe Sparque | 29 January 2023

Will I be front story news? Will they make me look like a reckless fool, one of those crazy daredevil tourists? Just to satisfy and entertain their readers, so they can feel superior?

Because the stakes are so small

Eric Laber | 8 January 2023

“Excuse me, Professor Tsing? I’m really sorry to bother you, but could I ask you a quick question…” Feigned politeness. Smug self-importance disguised as intellectual curiosity and deference.

Chapter Eleven: The Volunteer

Richard P Grant | 6 November 2022

Sabine checked her watch against the clock over the door. It wasn’t that she and Max ever agreed to meet, but his habit was to be at the lab half an hour after leaving his office.

Racy thrillers, rom-coms and period romps: 83 new additions to the LabLit List

Jenny Rohn | 2 October 2022

It’s official – it really does seem as if lab lit, the genre, is finally going mainstream.

The journey to Mars

Lucas M and Peter S | 27 April 2022

In the future, Earth will no longer be habitable, and we will have to go live on Mars. The problem is, we do not know how to get there.

But the thing that I noticed most is the sound. Or the lack of it. There are no birds singing, and no bugs buzzing in my ear. The pesky hum of a mosquito that isn’t there is more concerning than one that is.

Eugene Vasilly, Genius

James Nikopoulos | 26 September 2021

It is generally agreed upon that, had his life not ended in shame and obscurity, Eugene Vasilly would have been universally recognized as the…

Chapter Ten: The Promise

Richard P Grant | 25 July 2021

“You’ve done something here, Mike!” Slater shook his head. “I can’t let you leave now, there’s still too much to do. We can find a way through this.”

Science, they wrote

Claudine Peyre | 27 June 2021

Or rather, science they write. Seven fiction writers – Ann Lingard, Pippa Goldschmidt, Rebecca Stott, Tracy Chevalier, Jennifer Cryer, Jennifer Rohn and Rebecca Nesbit – have kindly agreed to contribute to a study focused on the relationships between science and literary fiction

Scientists deserve happy endings too

Sarah G. | 10 April 2021

Academia provides the backdrop for Christina Lauren’s 2018 romance novel My Favorite Half-Night Stand. It follows a group of five thirty-something best friends, all faculty…