Science Makes Great Fiction

Here’s a great reminder to us scientific fiction writers: make it interesting:

Science on the screen: a biologist does Hollywood

By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY

Once upon a time, a brave knight set out on a quest. He wasn’t just any knight. Oh no, Sir Randy was a scholarly fellow who lived in an ivory tower, where he wrote treatises night and day.

Sir Randy loved barnacles and lobsters and all sorts of creepy-crawly things that slither around in the muck under the waves. He loved them so much he wanted to tell the world, not just his nodding footmen, about his ardor for invertebrates.

So he left his ivory tower, his servants, his footmen and associate research dean, and headed for fairytale land, a place called Hollywood. There, he would face battles with dragons and snakes and studio hacks, all on his quest to learn the magical secrets that would allow him to blaze his beloved beasts’ beauty across the land.