New post at SIMF: Soylent Green for Dinner?

I've got a new post up at Science in My Fiction that takes a look at science fictional food pills, tablets and other sorts of "people chow".

 Yum!






For more discussion of the history of the way Americans have imagined "future foods",  I suggest checking out Warren Belasco's Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food (sample chapter, Amazon.com (affiliate link)).  I've found it to be really interesting.

 Read "Soylent Green for Dinner?" at Science in My Fiction

(Image by Uwe Post from Pixabay)

ActionBioscience and New Frontiers in Biology Biology

ActionBioscience is a web site run by the non-profit American Institute of Biological Sciences devoted to promoting literacy in the biological sciences. The site has articles on a variety of topics, but probably of most interest to science fiction readers (and writers) are "issues in new frontiers."

Some of the essays and interviews sound like science fiction anyway:

• "Rewilding" North America by reintroducing Pleistocene-era animals
• The ethics of crossing species boundaries
• The Sixth Extinction: humans might be next

The style is fairly dry, but the articles are generally written in clear non-jargony language and a number of links are provided for further reading. It seems like a useful resource for furthering your biology education.

Tags:education, biology, biotechnology, genetics