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Science Fiction Authors' Perspectives on Human Genetic Engineering In BMJ Publishing Group Limited (BMJ) disclaims all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance Supplemental material placed on this supplemental material which has been supplied by the author(s) Med Humanit Science Fiction Authors’ Perspectives on Human Genetic Engineering in Fiction Table S1. Science fiction authors’ most frequently mentioned influences on human genetic engineering, complete table Author/Franchise Mentions Works (number of specific mentions) Andrew Niccol 26 Gattaca (26) Star Trek franchise 15 “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” (1) “Space Seed” / The Wrath of Khan (3) “Statistical Probabilities” (1) The Vulcan Academy Murders (1) H.G. Wells 13 The Island of Doctor Moreau (11) The Time Machine (3) Aldous Huxley 12 Brave New World (12) Lois McMaster Bujold 7 Vorkosigan series (7) Octavia Butler 6 Lilith’s Brood series (4) Wild Seed (1) Frank Herbert 6 Dune (5) Hellstrom’s Hive (1) Marvel franchise 6 X-Men (3) Avengers (1) Captain America (1) Philip K. Dick 5 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep / Blade Runner (5) Paolo Bacigalupi 4 “The People of Sand and Slag” (2) The Windup Girl (1) Michael Crichton 4 Jurassic Park (4) Robert A. Heinlein 4 Friday (2) Beyond This Horizon (1) The Door Into Summer (1) Ursula K. Le Guin 4 The Left Hand of Darkness (3) “Nine Lives” (2) Alien franchise 3 Alien: Resurrection (2) Alien (1) Margaret Atwood 3 MaddAddam trilogy (3) Nancy Kress 3 Beggars in Spain (3) Kim Stanley Robinson 3 Mars trilogy (2) 2312 (1) Neal Stephenson 3 Seveneves (3) Peter Watts 3 Blindsight (1) Rifters series (1) Iain M. Banks 2 Culture series (1) David Brin 2 Uplift Series (2) So D, et al. Med Humanit 2021;0:1–13. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2020-012041 BMJ Publishing Group Limited (BMJ) disclaims all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance Supplemental material placed on this supplemental material which has been supplied by the author(s) Med Humanit Pierce Brown 2 Red Rising (1) C.J. Cherryh 2 Cyteen series (2) Greg Egan 2 Daniel Keyes 2 Flowers for Algernon (2) Richard K. Morgan 2 Altered Carbon (2) Vincenzo Natali 2 Splice (2) Orphan Black 2 Alastair Reynolds 2 Revelation Space series (1) Mary Shelley 2 Frankenstein (2) Dan Simmons 2 Iliu/Olympos series (1) Hyperion Cantos series (1) E.E. Smith 2 Lensman series (2) Bruce Sterling 2 Schismatrix (1) David Weber 2 Honor Harrington series (2) Hiromu Arakawa 1 Fullmetal Alchemist series Babylon 5 1 Batman (animated series) 1 Battlestar Galactica 1 BattleTech franchise 1 Michael Bay 1 The Island Greg Bear 1 Blood Music Bioshock 1 The Boys franchise 1 Edgar Rice Burroughs 1 Synthetic Men of Mars Dark Angel 1 Orson Scott Card 1 Ender’s Shadow series Jack L. Chalker 1 Rings of the Master series Ted Chiang 1 James S.A. Corey 1 The Expanse series David Cronenberg 1 The Fly Cyberpunk 2020 1 So D, et al. Med Humanit 2021;0:1–13. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2020-012041 BMJ Publishing Group Limited (BMJ) disclaims all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance Supplemental material placed on this supplemental material which has been supplied by the author(s) Med Humanit S.B. Divya 1 “Runtime” Doctor Who franchise 1 Genesis of the Daleks serial Eclipse Phase 1 Nancy Farmer 1 House of the Scorpion series Firefly 1 William Gibson 1 Renny Harlin 1 Deep Blue Sea M. John Harrison 1 Light Duncan Jones 1 Moon Dean Koontz 1 Watchers David Marusek 1 Counting Heads Anne McCaffrey 1 To Ride Pegasus Ian McDonald 1 River of Gods Linda Nagata 1 The Bohr Maker Ada Palmer 1 Terra Ignota series Rodman Philbrick 1 The Last Book in the Universe Marge Piercy 1 Woman on the Edge of Time Frederik Pohl 1 “Day Million” Alex Proyas 1 I, Robot Robert J. Sawyer 1 Rollback John Scalzi 1 The Ghost Brigades Sherlock 1 “The Hounds of Baskerville” Scott Sigler 1 Galactic Football League series Infected Joan Slonczewski 1 Elysium cycle Olaf Stapledon 1 Odd John Static Shock 1 Yoshiki Tayaka 1 Bio Booster Armor Guyver series Jack Vance 1 “The Last Castle” “The Dragon Masters” “The Miracle Workers” Paul Verhoeven 1 Robocop So D, et al. Med Humanit 2021;0:1–13. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2020-012041 BMJ Publishing Group Limited (BMJ) disclaims all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance Supplemental material placed on this supplemental material which has been supplied by the author(s) Med Humanit Joan D. Vinge 1 The Snow Queen The Wachowskis 1 The Matrix Warhammer 40,000 franchise 1 Westworld 1 Walter Jon Williams 1 “The Green Leopard Plague” Charles Robert Wilson 1 The Divide Kurt Wimmer 1 Ultraviolet So D, et al. Med Humanit 2021;0:1–13. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2020-012041.
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