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Related Readings: The Book of Life in a Genomic Age

 

Nonfiction Books

Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture
by Jon Turner
New Haven: Yale University Press (2000)
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Dinner at the New Gene Cafe: How Genetic Engineering is Changing What We Eat, How We Live, and the Global Politics of Food
by Bill Lambrecht
New York: St. Martin's Griffin (2002)
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Genome:The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by Matt Ridley
New York: Harper Perennial (2006)

Nonfiction Articles

"The Biologists Strike Back." Nature 448 (5 July 2007)

Fiction Books

Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
New York: Penguin Classics (2003)
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Dawn
by Octavia Butler
New York: Warner Aspect Publishers (1997)
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Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
New York: Anchor Publishing (2004)
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Sequence
by Lori Andrews
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur (2007)
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Fiction Shorts

"Olympic Talent: Fit...for nothing?" Nature 448 (5 July 2007)