So you can get started with your wonderful, genre-travel-filled New Year, Episode 15 is a little shorter than usual. This week, The Genre Traveler chats with biology teacher and science fiction author Lawrence Vincent about his book DNA3, the first in a series. During our 15-20 minutes together, we talk about genetic manipulation, invisible robots, alien races, making science fiction more plausible, alien-human mating and the works that inspired the series.
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Duration: 18:23
File Size: 21.1 MB
Mentioned in this Episode:
Invisible meta-materials
- Sight unseen: metamaterials could be used to create invisible ships
- New meta-material doesn’t actually render anything invisible
- Is the army testing an invisible tank?
Planet 581c
Authors Whose Work Inspired DNA3
- Michael Crichton’s Prey (nanoparticles)
- Larry Niven’s Ringworld series (space habitats)
- Greg Bear’s Darwin’s Children (genetic manipulation)
- Robert Doherty’s Area 51 series (believability of aliens)
For more information about Lawrence Vincent:
- www.lawrencevincent.net
For previous episodes, go here.
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