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From short stories of love across the lab bench to carefully crafted novels inspired by the tragic toll of a polio outbreak, works of fiction inspired by science and medicine can provide powerful insights into the forces that drive us - or cause us to despair.
Now we?re asking you to explore those issues yourself - to start with the fascinating facts of cutting-edge science and send us your own short works of science-inspired fiction.
Five shortlisted works will be featured on newscientist.com before the end of the year. The winning entry, as selected by our judge and Wellcome Trust prizewinning author Alice LaPlante, will run in our end-of-year issue. In addition, the winning entrant will be awarded a ?200 Amazon gift certificate, and the four runners-up will each receive a ?50 gift certificate.
Stories should be original works no more than 350 words long. The competition is limited to one entry per person and the closing date is 14 November 2012.
Read the full terms and conditions, then submit your stories. Happy writing!
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