Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park may be good science fiction, but it's lousy science-in-fiction. Professor Carl Djerassi, who collaborated in producing the first oral contraceptive, talks about the science-in-fiction genre and how it differs from its implausible, inaccurate counterpart. Djerassi also discusses his new novel, Menachem's Seed, the third volume in his science-in-fiction tetralogy (which includes Cantor's Dilemma, 1989; The Bourbaki Gambit, 1994). In Menachem's Seed, the author explores the scientific and moral issues surrounding in-vitro fertilization.
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"Like all his books it focuses on moral dilemmas, though not in this case the "morality" of becoming an SMC but the morality of stealing a sperm. " — Ahf (4 out of 5 stars)
"Like all his books it focuses on moral dilemmas, though not in this case the "morality" of becoming an SMC but the morality of stealing a sperm. "
" Like all his books it focuses on moral dilemmas, though not in this case the "morality" of becoming an SMC but the morality of stealing a sperm. "
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