I'm planning to introduce occasional bonus guest posts on these topics on my Cosmic Stories blog next year and am looking for contributors. Happy to share an example or two of what I mean to those interested in contributing. The rest of you will have to wait.

Topics might include how SF relates to one's work, how it influenced career choices or identification with the field, how it could be used for teaching, why it appeals to you as a scientist/engineer/teacher or even why its influence is negative/loathed. Either SF as a genre or a specific example.

I'd missed that! Must have been before I boarded the Stanway Express with other followers.

Amazing that a parody written by two goofy grad students in the summer of '77, based on a rather obvious pun, has still been cited in AD 2025.

And such company! Hugo Gernsback! Tom Swift, Jr! Thunderbirds!

Thank you so much! I'm glad you're enjoying it. I'm not going to lie - I do a fair bit of research on each topic, to add to the ones which spring to mind, so can't quite claim as encyclopaedic knowledge as the blog may sometimes suggest.

Well done for getting it sorted. And even if you weren't referenced this time, I think I may have mentioned your Home on Lagrange filk in an earlier blog article! warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/phys...

Thank you for the comment! It's certainly an interesting topic.

@planetgreaves.bsky.social This time it should work - touch wood! Thanks :)

Eeek! That would be because I can't spell "stories" on a Sunday morning. Thanks for letting me know!
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