Science and Fiction–Writers Respond #2

Continuing from Monday’s post, I’m summarizing the responses of science fiction writers to the questions Peggy Kolmand I asked about the relationship between science and science fiction to help us prepare for our session at ScienceOnline09. Peggy has started with the scientists’ answers.Links to all the responses are listed on the wiki page for the session (if we screwed up and missed you, please tell us). The quotes below are excerpts. You can follow the links to each writer’s full answer.Toda

Science and Science Fiction: What the scientists say: Do you like SF?

As you may recall, Stephanie Zvan and I will be moderating a panel at the fast-approaching ScienceOnline09 conference about the role of science fiction in science communication. We asked a bunch of science fiction writers and scientists (and a number of people who are both) several questions about their thoughts on science in SF. This is the first in a series of posts that gives overview of the answers the scientists gave – there are links to the full replies on my original post . Meanwhile,

Science and Fiction–Writers Respond #1

Back in November, Peggy Kolmand I started soliciting input from science fiction writers and science bloggers about the relationship between science and science fiction for our session at ScienceOnline09. We got an amazing response. Thank you to everyone who took the time to answer.Everyone who responded is listed on the wiki page for the session (if not, please let us know and we’ll fix it), but that’s a lot of information, so over the next week or so, Peggy and I will be summarizing and highlig