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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: Science-based fiction
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2025 16:18:12 -0000 (UTC)
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I read an interesting article from the CBC that said some publishers
are experimenting with wild new ideas like providing each story with
a title, and crediting specific authors. Is that communism?


In article <fiction-20250628144512@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>,
Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>  The seventh story was basically straight-up science fiction
>  - like, real science-based fiction. The story came out in
>  2017, but it takes place in the "future," meaning the first
>  half of 2025, and it wraps up on June 10, 2025!
>
>  It follows this doctor who's running a drug trial with hockey
>  players dealing with brain injuries from the sport.
>
>  There's nothing you'd call classic sci-fi here - no aliens, no wild
>  side effects from the drug (so, no zombies or anything like that).
>  Honestly, there weren't any big twists in this one, unless I missed
>  something. You could say it kind of lets down anyone looking for
>  the usual genre stuff, but it does give you a slice of how medical
>  research actually goes down. If it weren't told from the doctor's
>  point of view, it could almost be a feature in a newspaper.
>
>


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