Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy has plenty of science fiction moments, plus quite an obsession with the aurora borealis and the possibility of it being a gateway into parallel universes...
Alex.
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> If you're including playwrights then there's quite a few you could choose from:
> Caryl Churchill (A Number at the Royal Court in 2002), any of the writers commissioned by Y touring for their young people's tours (Nicola Baldwin, Jonathan Hall, Judy Upton), one of the writers currently working on commissions for Theatre Royal Plymouth (contact me if you're interested).
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> You also might be interested in radio/TV drama writers supported by PAWS (see below)
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> best
> Simon
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> "Bitter Pill" - a success for the BBC/PAWS Science Radio Drama Project
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> This 2002 project gave six up-and-coming drama writers grants and places on a course run by PAWS and BBC Radio designed to develop new "science themed" radio drama ideas for transmission on BBC Radio. PAWS' input into this project was made possible by a grant from the Wellcome Trust.
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> Grant winner Lisa Holdsworth's radio drama "Bitter Pill" is now being recorded with a cast including Andrew Tiernan, Lesley Sharp and Sam Kelly.
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> Produced by Pauline Harris, "Bitter Pill" will be transmitted in the Afternoon Play slot on Radio 4.
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> We are planning an event at the Science Festival in June on science writing.
> Apart from Philip Pullman, if anyone can recommend fiction authors
> (preferable well known and not necessarily science fiction) who include
> science within their work, I would be grateful for your help...
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> thanks
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