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Learning to Forget : Seeking Balance between Science and Fiction
2020
single work
essay
— Appears in: Science Write Now , August no. 1 2020;'I am not a scientist; I was a reasonable biology student, but I limped through chemistry at high school and eventually dropped it for politics. My school learning of science calcified when I chose to focus on arts at university, but when I conceived the premise of Fauna, I drew back the curtains on science for the sake of writing and became a student of the ‘intermezzo’: the in-between of science and fiction and the in-between of human and Neanderthal.' (Introduction)
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Learning to Forget : Seeking Balance between Science and Fiction
2020
single work
essay
— Appears in: Science Write Now , August no. 1 2020;'I am not a scientist; I was a reasonable biology student, but I limped through chemistry at high school and eventually dropped it for politics. My school learning of science calcified when I chose to focus on arts at university, but when I conceived the premise of Fauna, I drew back the curtains on science for the sake of writing and became a student of the ‘intermezzo’: the in-between of science and fiction and the in-between of human and Neanderthal.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2016 joint winner Patricia Hackett Prize
