Warrior Lovers by Catherine Salmon and Donald Symons Weidenfeld &
Nicolson, ISBN 0297647016, £6.99
A TORRID affair between Captain Kirk and his trusty Vulcan sidekick, Spock?
It may sound faintly odd, but not to readers of slash fiction—fan writing
by and for women based on characters from TV shows, most of it featuring
sexually explicit relationships between two men. The “slash” refers to the
punctuation mark connecting the odd couples. But what, you may ask, has this to
do with science?
Catherine Salmon and Donald Symons tackle that question in Warrior
Lovers, a book in the Darwinism Today series that…
