Re: Science-based fiction

I read an interesting article from the CBC that said some publishers
are experimenting with wild new ideas like providing each story with
a title, and crediting specific authors. Is that communism?


In article <fiction-20250628144512@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>,
Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

 The seventh story was basically straight-up science fiction
 - like, real science-based fiction. The story came out in
 2017, but it takes place in the "future," meaning the first
 half of 2025, and it wraps up on June 10, 2025!
>
 It follows this doctor who's running a drug trial with hockey
 players dealing with brain injuries from the sport.
>
 There's nothing you'd call classic sci-fi here - no aliens, no wild
 side effects from the drug (so, no zombies or anything like that).
 Honestly, there weren't any big twists in this one, unless I missed
 something. You could say it kind of lets down anyone looking for
 the usual genre stuff, but it does give you a slice of how medical
 research actually goes down. If it weren't told from the doctor's
 point of view, it could almost be a feature in a newspaper.
>
>

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