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• In the news

  • "[One of] 20 great websites that every scientist, engineering, or geek-at-heart ought to know about"

    Baltimore Science News Examiner on LabLit.com

  • "This scientific novel can't be put down"

    Science magazine recommends Experimental Heart

  • "An excellent addition to the newly-identified genre known as LabLit"

    Experimental Heart reviewed in Living the Scientific Life

  • "Rohn has taken a world that is mysterious and often ignored and placed it front and center...a truly fresh voice"

    Experimental Heart reviewed in The Virginia Quarterly Review

  • "[A]ll the well-loved aspects of a research laboratory"

    Experimental Heart reviewed in The Biochemist

  • "[C]heck out [LabLit.com] for more reasons to welcome science to literature"

    Cell

  • "[W]here literary scientists...can find like-minded people"

    Chemistry World on LabLit.com

  • "Conspiracy at the bench"

    LabLit's editor's debut novel reviewed in Nature

  • "Imprisoned by intelligence"

    LabLit's editor reviews a new novel in Nature

  • "Fictional quantum conspiracy"

    LabLit's editor reviews a new novel in Nature

  • What is LabLit.com?

    Learn more on the Guardian's 'Science Weekly' podcast

  • "From bench to book"

    LabLit's editor reviews 3 novels in Nature

  • Behind the scenes

    Q&A of LabLit's editor in Nature

  • "Image and imagination: overhauling the reputation of scientists"

    LabLit's editor in Laboratory News

  • "LabLit is all about encouraging the use of realistic depictions of science and scientists in realistic fiction"

    Scott Keir, Nature Network London

  • "Why aren't white coats sexy?"

    LabLit's editor writes in The Biochemist

  • "It's a wonderful venture, and a topic of the most resonant importance"

    novelist Richard Powers on LabLit.com

  • "FUN: Still life, with test tube"

    Science magazine recommends LabLit

  • "Experimental fiction"

    LabLit's editor talks fiction in Nature

  • "A light touch and some panache"

    LabLit reviewed by The Biochemist