Make sure your fiction is actually, er, fiction.
For example, wouldn't it be fun to have your character own a supersoft pet whose fur, I don't know, maybe glowed? And was adorable and smooshable and was vegan?
Well, that's not fiction.
In 2000, artist Eduardo Kac had an idea. With the help of geneticist Louis-Marie Houdebine, the green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene from the jellyfish Aequoria victoria was inserted into the genome of a plain white bunny.
So take some of this:
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| (wikipedia) |
Guess what they got?
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| Alba, the glowing bunny! Click here for an actual photo. |
Remember this was in the year 2000! Quite a while ago. So when you're writing your futuristic sci-fi novel, remember that science today may already be way ahead of what's going on in your creative mind.
In other words, Google "glowing bunny" before you write it down as pure fiction!
7 comments:
They really made a glowing bunny? Why?
Maybe I do need to do a Google search for teleportation...
I can't wait for everything Star Trek to come true!! Apart from the Klingon wars etc of course! LOL! Oh hang on - I had some genuine Romulan Ale in my last trekker convention...!
:-)
Take care
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Lydia, that poor bunny! No way it'd make it on the outside. They got it caged for life if it doesn't want to be eaten.
This post made me laugh. Science has come forward in ways we don't even realise.
Jai
I'd forgotten about the glowing bunny. But now that you mention it, I remember. Truth is as strange as sci-fi. :)
I'm still waiting for my world to catch up with The Jetsons.
The great thing about the "glowing bunny" dilemma is that if readers know it has been done for real, they will think you an expert in science when you were actually clueless. Always good to be mistaken for greatness!
I've been totally into the "art" of E Kak for years! He is very cool.
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