About this series
During his life Gregor Mendel had three careers; a scientist, a teacher and an administrator. Today we recognize his genius for discovery, but few know of his talents as a teacher. While teaching his students about cell biology, Mendel also has to grapple with jealous enemies who know where he is weakest.
Titles in the series (7)
- Brother Gregory: Digression
In the story Gene Four, the last remains of an English saint appear to perform a miracle. But how did the bones of Saint Huge end up in a church in Brno? It is path that took them through a revolution, a war and a Napoleonic battle.
- Brother Gregory: Gene Four
At the dawn of the modern scientific era important discoveries were made in the strangest places. Pasteur found the invisible agents of infection and disease in rabid dogs, and in this story Brother Gregory finds answers in a barrel of sour wine. He also sees a miracle of a different sort.
- Brother Gregory: Gene Five
Mendel learns how to bend rays of light, which reveals the incredible world of sub-microscopic life, and also gives him a clue as to how a “perfect” crime was committed. Brother Gregory uses technology, sympathy and logical deduction to save his friend from disaster.
- Brother Gregory: Gene Seven
Women's fashion and the desire for highly-colored cloth was the strange starting point for the new science of chemistry; the manipulation of atoms and molecules into valuable new forms and properties. Brother Gregory is trapped into helping others turn cloth red - for a wedding - while also running for election - to allow his friend to escape imprisonment.
- Brother Gregory: Gene Two
A continent away from the monk and the monastery where humans got their first glimpse of inheritance mechanisms, Charles Darwin has already told the world how all modern living creatures had got to be the way they were. But ... he did not understand genetics; why children looked like their parents. Mendel could have told him and cleared up a major pool of ignorance. But, it never happened. Why?
- Brother Gregory: Gene One
These Brother Gregory stories are historical scientific fiction. They start on a cold night in Brno in 1865 when the world learns, for the first time, about the mechanism of genetic inheritance. A giant scientific mystery was revealed, but the time was not quite right. Why? Meet Gregor Mendel, his friends - and his enemies - and find the answer.
- Brother Gregory: Gene Three
During his life Gregor Mendel had three careers; a scientist, a teacher and an administrator. Today we recognize his genius for discovery, but few know of his talents as a teacher. While teaching his students about cell biology, Mendel also has to grapple with jealous enemies who know where he is weakest.
John Hulme
John Hulme is a retired Professor, now living and writing in Florida. He was educated in England - a long time ago - and arrived on the shores of New York carrying a single suitcase and lots of ideas. He has written several hardcover science books and was an early user of the fledgling internet as a teaching tool. Before retirement he wrote a set of fictional science stories about Gregor Mendel - the person who discovered genetics, which he is now converting into ebooks. Since retirement he has started on a long-cherished writing project of historical fiction - which you may be seeing soon.
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