Hi Clare,
Alan Lightman (based at MIT) would be a very good one for your session.
John Banville (Irish Times) has a lot of science in his stories.
Tom
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> Subject: [PSCI-COM] Fiction authors at Cheltenham Science Festival
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> We are planning an event at the Science Festival in June on
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