But futuristic chemistry is embraced by sci-fi writers too. For example, a central feature of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World is a chemical antidepressant. In recent years we've seen ...

Sci-fi novels reflect cultural anxieties through ... believable ways of creating water and growing plants through basic ...

In other words, they found that you can use the fundamental processes of physics and chemistry to relay information ... we've got the whole of the periodic table of elements that we can use ...