Author Archive: Sanjida O'Connell

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Fairytales

Fairytales

Once upon a time…how comforting is this timeless beginning, immediately sending us back to our childhoods, tucked up in bed and listening to a story. Narrative is part of the human psyche, the way we explain the world to ourselves and each other. It’s perhaps no surprise that recent research, published in the Royal Society […]

March 3, 2016 | By | 6 Replies More
Science in Fiction

Science in Fiction

It’s not done well. In fact, it’s done infrequently and frequently badly. Science in fiction. I’m not talking about non-fiction books dealing with science or science fiction, which has to have, at least, a modicum of science as a given, but science in your common or garden novel. Science has a lot to offer: we […]

December 2, 2013 | By | 14 Replies More