One of the most unique offerings at SciFiction is Michael Swanwick's "Periodic Table of Science Fiction", which has a short short story linked to each element in the periodic table. It starts with "The Hindenburg" for Hydrogen (atomic number 1) and continues all the way through "Now You See It Now You" for Ununoctium (atomic number 118). I don't think it's surprising that some of the bits work better than others, but it's a clever concept.Inspired by Swanwick, Scottish science fiction writer Ken MacLeod, writer in residence at The Genomics Forum, has has put together The Human Genre Project. It looks like each of the 22 autosomal and X and Y chromosomes can have more than one entry. That's appropriate, since each carries multiple genes, and can affect many different human characteristics.
It's a work in progress - only 7 of the chromosomes have an entry - and you can still submit a contribution inspired by genes and genomics. If you need inspiration, you can explore each chromosome using the Human Genome Project's Chromosome Viewer.
If you don't want to scroll over each chromosomal image to find the stories, you can just use the Index of Human Genre Project stories by author.
Also, you can read the winners of the Genomics Network's short story competition, which aren't so much science fiction as fiction with science.
(via SF Signal)
Tags:science fiction, genomics, genetics
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Thank you for the links to the Genome Fiction, I remember the Periodic Table and as far as vignettes go, it's a cute idea.
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