Scientists Put a Movie in DNA. I Had Questions.

How a real experiment inspired my new thriller, Carbon Secrets.

On From Fact To Fiction, we review fantastic specialty thrillers, and unravel fact from fiction.

This month, From Fact to Fiction gets up close and personal as we talk about my own novel, Carbon Secrets, the third book in the Georgia Steele thriller series.

Joining me is my longtime friend Jennifer Milch—a data executive, former stand-up comic, and wonderfully smart and sassy lady who’s read all three Georgia Steele books.

We talk about the real science and ideas that inspired Carbon Secrets: scientists storing images in DNA, the history of eugenics and selective breeding, and the rapidly advancing world of artificial intelligens and brain-computer interfaces.

And that leads us to one of the central questions of the Georgia Steele series: What happens when humanity gains the ability to create “better” humans—who gets to decide what better means?