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Rachel Neumeier:
Do you have any favorite authors who are scientists, especially biologists?
Rachel Neumeier
I have favorite authors who write as though they are scientists!
1. Rosemary Kirstein, whose Steerswoman series is amazing for the scientific point of view infused into some of the characters.
2. Marie Brennan's Lady Trent series, where the style and topics do a wonderful job of reflecting the type of worldview and work done by early naturalists.
3. James Cambias, whose debut SF novel A Darkling Sea drew very heavily on knowledge of biology and animal behavior, though I don't think he is an academic or a practicing scientist.
4. Some real thought went into the alien species we see in Eric Flint's Mother of Demons. He's a history guy, not a scientist, but I was impressed with how he worked out those species.
I've never been super-crazy about Golden Age science fiction, so some of the physics-heavy SF written by actual physicists doesn't really appeal to me. I'm thinking here of Gregory Benford and Fred Hoyle.
If you haven't tried Kirstein's series, I hope you do. I bet you love it even if it isn't finished yet.
1. Rosemary Kirstein, whose Steerswoman series is amazing for the scientific point of view infused into some of the characters.
2. Marie Brennan's Lady Trent series, where the style and topics do a wonderful job of reflecting the type of worldview and work done by early naturalists.
3. James Cambias, whose debut SF novel A Darkling Sea drew very heavily on knowledge of biology and animal behavior, though I don't think he is an academic or a practicing scientist.
4. Some real thought went into the alien species we see in Eric Flint's Mother of Demons. He's a history guy, not a scientist, but I was impressed with how he worked out those species.
I've never been super-crazy about Golden Age science fiction, so some of the physics-heavy SF written by actual physicists doesn't really appeal to me. I'm thinking here of Gregory Benford and Fred Hoyle.
If you haven't tried Kirstein's series, I hope you do. I bet you love it even if it isn't finished yet.
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