Articles by Nik Papageorgiou : LabLit.com

Articles by Nik Papageorgiou

Fiction
Body language
From the LabLit short story series
Nik Papageorgiou 6 March 2015
Fiction
Serendipity
From the LabLit short story series
Nik Papageorgiou 6 March 2014
Fiction
Murder, it wrote
From the LabLit short story series
Nik Papageorgiou 2 June 2013
Fiction
Road's end
From the LabLit short shory series
Nik Papageorgiou 3 March 2012
Humor
Lab noir
A man's gotta have a skill
Nik Papageorgiou 11 December 2011
Humor
The first rule of a PhD...
If Chuck Palahniuk wrote lab lit
Nik Papageorgiou 11 September 2011
Fiction
Reverse transcription
From the LabLit short story series
Nik Papageorgiou 27 June 2011
Fiction
Big Bang
From the LabLit short story series
Nik Papageorgiou 22 January 2011
Humor
Give generously
It could have been you
Nik Papageorgiou 23 December 2010
Fiction
If Cormac McCarthy wrote lab lit
From the LabLit short story series
Nik Papageorgiou 19 December 2010
Fiction
The science of interviews
by Nik Papageorgiou
Nik Papageorgiou 18 July 2010
Fiction
Fund club
From the LabLit short story series
Nik Papageorgiou 17 May 2010
Fiction
Do robots dream of coffee breaks?
From the LabLit short story series
Nik Papageorgiou 2 April 2010
Lab Rats
Status quo
When the scientific dream isn't coming true
Nik Papageorgiou 17 December 2009
Fiction
Intraview
From the LabLit short story series
Nik Papageorgiou 10 November 2009
Fiction
Traitor
From the LabLit short story series
Nik Papageorgiou 14 September 2009
Fiction
Fish tale
From the LabLit short story series
Nik Papageorgiou 19 May 2009
Fiction
Blot
From the LabLit short story series
Nik Papageorgiou 15 March 2009
Fiction
The end of science
From the LabLit short story series
Nik Papageorgiou 14 December 2008

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- Scenes through a picture window
  
  New science poetry from Peter Roberts
- Interviews
  
  New short fiction from João Ramalho-Santos
- The science of coincidence
  
  New short fiction from Gavin Milnthorpe
- Life reimagined, by Alex and Noah
  
  The next story in our "Young Authors" series!
- The sample
  
  Our next exciting episode of "A Momentary Lapse of Reason"!
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- Needs must: The great pipette tip caper
  
  New humorous fiction from Julia RIchards
- After the Delhi rapes, a female scientist from India speaks out
  
  Professional women in India have to work in fear - when will it change?
- Live long and prosper: a brief encounter with Aubrey de Grey
  
  Akshat Rathi meets the man who wants to abolish aging
- A lab wager goes horribly wrong: The 50% Sleeper by Tal Yarkoni
  
  Humorous fiction from the LabLit short story series
- The flying laboratory: stalking the shrinking ice of Antarctica
  
  Scientist Seelye Martin reports live from an airborne mission
- Stardom
  
  Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson
- The day after today
  
  Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson

In the news
- "LabLit.com founder and editor, Jenny Rohn, is prone to getting excited over 'hard-core lab scenes.' "
  
  LabLit.com picks another great crop of beach reads for NPR
- "These summer reads have scientists at their heart"
  
  Interview of LabLit.com's editor on NPR
- "It's a great venue for aspiring authors to publish their fiction about scientists"
  
  Interview of LabLit.com's editor on 3M Champions of Science podcast
- Novels about scientists highlight passion and (sometimes) failure
  
  Interview of LabLit.com's editor on NPR
- Lab lit - a lesser-known literary genre that tries to portray scientists realistically, beyond the classic lab coat stereotypes
  
  Science in fiction featured in Nature Physics
- Scientists in space - and beyond
  
  Jenny talks lab lit fiction with Mariella Frostrup on Open Book, BBC Radio 4
- The untapped niche is rich in opportunities for originality
  
  Piece about lab lit fiction in Nature
- Lab Lit Revealed: LabLit.com's editor interviewed by Robert Crease
  
  Piece in Physics World
- "Lab lit? What’s that? Not to be confused with science fiction, lab lit refers to novels with scientists as central characters"
  
  NPR discusses LabLit.com and the genre - or lack thereof
- "[R]research developments have been featuring in novels that depict the world as we know it now."
  
  Piece on LabLit in Oxford Today
- "[A] genre of serious fiction with a snappy new name: lab lit...the webzine LabLit.com...has “Lab Lit Lists” for dozens of novels, films, plays and TV shows
  
  The New York Times likes LabLit.com
- 'Lab lit' is a chance to show what we're really like
  
  The New Scientist talks to Jenny
- Light reading
  
  LabLit helps judge Diamond's science short story competition
- Dedicated to "writing about the science environment, stories that take place in the lab"
  
  51stories.com recommends Lablit.com
- "A clever website...LabLit.com breaks new ground in its portrayal of science and scientists"
  
  BioTechniques Webwatch recommends us
- "Another example of 'lab lit' is Experimental Heart...which I’ll put on my 'to read' list"
  
  - The Boston Globe gets into science novels
- "[Scientists] are usually cast as troublemakers and hardly ever get to be true Hollywood heroes"
  
  Jenny dissects the science behind the movie 'Splice' for BBC News
- "Science is a great topic for a novel"
  
  Interview of LabLit's editor in Lab Times
- A lab lit renaissance?
  
  Jenny's essay in Nature about why science in fiction seems on the rise
- "The loveliness of the Lab Lit List"
  
  Author Michael Byers recommends our collection of science novels
- "Science is only one side of the story"
  
  Jenny from LabLit interviews Billy Bragg for Nature news
- "[Lab lit novels] are not just entertaining tales of biologists at work; they also make the reader think about the unique issues"
  
  Nature Methods recommends LabLit.com
- "[One of] 20 great websites that every scientist, engineering, or geek-at-heart ought to know about"
  
  Baltimore Science News Examiner on LabLit.com
- "[C]heck out [LabLit.com] for more reasons to welcome science to literature"
  
  Cell
- "[W]here literary scientists...can find like-minded people"
  
  Chemistry World on LabLit.com
- What is LabLit.com?
  
  Learn more on the Guardian's 'Science Weekly' podcast
- "It's a wonderful venture, and a topic of the most resonant importance"
  
  novelist Richard Powers on LabLit.com
- "FUN: Still life, with test tube"
  
  Science magazine recommends LabLit
- "A light touch and some panache"
  
  LabLit reviewed by The Biochemist
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