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Now Biology Gets the 'Star Trek' Spin
Judy Quinn -- 9/15/97
Can lightning strike twice? We guess that's probably a physics query, but the question actually applies to The Biology of Star Trek, a book just acquired by Betsy Mitchell, editor-in-chief of Warner's Aspect science fiction line, for a reported $137,500 hard/soft world rights advance. Warner had set a $50,000 floor on the book, and a handful went into the bidding, inspired by the sleeper success (about 40,000 hardcover copies sold, 100,000 trade paper) of The Physics of Star Trek, published by Basic Books, which already produced the followup The Metaphysics of Star Trek this summer. Agent Jimmy Vines represented author Athena Andreadis, a Harvard Medical School assistant professor of neurology who in sprightly style will discuss cloning, telepathy, intelligence in other species and interspecies sex in context of the Trek shows and movies. "I think people want to learn about science in a fun way," said Mitchell, who plans a late 1998 or early 1999 publication and won over the no-surprise underbidder, HarperCollins.

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