January 14, 2005

Science Fiction and Biology

To the Editor:

The essay "Biology, Culture, and Persistent Literary Dystopias" (The Chronicle Review, December 3), by Nanelle R. Barash and David P. Barash, was a masterful web of connections and observations about a variety of science-fiction texts past and present, literary and celluloid. I particularly appreciate the authors' insight into the antibiological bias of dystopian worlds, a cultural prejudice that is frequently overlooked.

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