Biology in Science Fiction: Free Fiction » Lobsters & Crabs http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory Sun, 06 May 2012 00:13:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Biology by Louis Phillips http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/biology-by-louis-phillips/ http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/biology-by-louis-phillips/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:28:51 +0000 Peggy http://sciencefictionbiology.com/directory/?p=2182 Title: Biology

Author: Louis Phillips

Length: short story

First Publication: fantastic metropolis, 2002

What the Story is About: A surreal freshman Biology class in the form of a play.

Biology is where the real action is. Everybody wants to see naked animals We’re just voyeurs at heart… Please, take a seat. And please take out your gum . Just because the human jaw moves up and down there’s no need to turn it into a saliva-making elevator.

Consider the lobster…

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Author: Neal Asher

Length: short story

First Publication: The Agony Column, 2003

What the Story is About: From the story:

A little tampering with code made it possible to have, instead of a Sunday joint, a prawn of equivalent size that you carved into slices. You could buy crab meat for a few euros a kilogram because crabs could be grown to huge size. For an Australian land crab, which had been intelligent and dangerous when it had been merely the size of a dinner plate, people found other uses, especially when it was grown to the size of Rottweiler.

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Author: Charles Stross

Length: novelette

First Publication: Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2001

Awards: Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2002, Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2002.

What the Story is About: Networked uploaded lobsters form an artificial intelligence that Manfred Macx works to liberate. This is the first chapter of the novel Accelerando.

Note: a couple of scenes may be disturbing to cat lovers.

Related Biology in Science Fiction blog post: Lobsters

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