NP "lab-lit"

[pynchonoid]

[...] If science writing can benefit from literary
devices, there is also a trend to incorporate real
science into fiction. Janna Levin's new book A Madman
Dreams of Turing Machines (reviewed on p40 print
version only) is just the latest example, exploring as
it does the lives of the mathematicians Alan Turing
and Kurt Gödel in the form of a novel. Biologist
Jennifer Rohn has even founded a website that
celebrates this relatively new genre, which she calls
"lab lit". This is something quite different from
science fiction – rather than dealing with speculative
possibilities and stereotypical "mad scientists", lab
lit depicts real science and realistic characters in
books, plays and films. [...] 

...from:

http://physicsweb.org/articles/review/19/12/1/1
Simply the best
Review: December 2006
With hundreds of popular-science books published every
year, it is hard to sort the wheat from the
chaff.Martin Griffithslooks at what distinguishes a
great science book from a bad one


 
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