Prisoners of Gravity

Medicine and Nanotechnology (5x8)

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Commander Rick is feeling under the weather this week and so decides to investigate the future of medicine with science fiction authors Frederik Pohl (Gateway), Nancy Kress ("The Mountain to Mohammed"), and science fact writer Joel Davis, whose book, Mapping The Code, explores the Human Genome Project. Then Rick examines nanotechnology--the building of cell-sized machines that practice medicine from inside the human body--with Steven Barnes (co-author, The Barsoom Project), Tony Daniel (Warpath), Ian McDonald (Necroville), Michael Skeet ("Relics"), Dave Smeds ("Suicidal Tendencies"), John Clute (co-editor, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction), and Greg Bear (Blood Music), the first SF author to explore this new frontier.