- Paperback: 164 pages
- Publisher: lulu.com (3 Mar 2011)
- ISBN-10: 1446730425
- ISBN-13: 978-1446730423
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,338,153 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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What do Batman, Doctor Who, quantum physics, Oscar Wilde, liberalism, the second law of thermodynamics, Harry Potter fanfic, postmodernism, and Superman have in common? If your answer to that was "Nothing" then
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Double disclosure: not only is the author, Andrew Hickey, an internet friend, he was also daft enough to ask me to proofread this book and provide "helpful" feedback. He even swapped a couple of chapters around at my suggestions -- THE FOOL!
Even as someone who had an "inside" view of the creation of this book, I still found the format a little frustrating at first. I think this is related to the fact that certain scientific concepts are introduced early on in Sci-Ence! Justice Leak! but not fully explained until nearer the end. Still, as I pressed on, I found this to be part of the charm of the book - it's a fractal story about fractal stories, and many of its pleasures derive from the fact that Andrew can look at a Batman comic and see everything from black holes to British politics reflected in it.
And hey, even when Mr Hickey doesn't get back round to a topic, I enjoyed getting to do a little bit of extra dot joining myself - a good indicator of how much I liked the book, that! So, for example: the realisation of the way the seemingly disconnected essay on the Melmoth chapter of Cerebus was actually an essential part of the ultrastructure was probably when I decided that this was A PROPER BOOK, whatever the hell that means! Melmoth is a tangle of interconnected fictions concerning the life and death of Oscar Wilde, and by writing about it early on Andrew underlines the complex relationship between the real and theoretical that runs through his book.
I've always been a big fan of art that expresses its themes in style as well as in content, and Sci-Ence! Justice Leak! manages to do this with great panache - it's a witty, esoteric tribute to lots of different sorts of freedom, and I can pretty much guarantee that you've never read anything like it!
There *is* a lot of Doctor Who in there though, so it's still quite a niche book, but if it's your niche then I suspect you might just love it...
Even as someone who had an "inside" view of the creation of this book, I still found the format a little frustrating at first. I think this is related to the fact that certain scientific concepts are introduced early on in Sci-Ence! Justice Leak! but not fully explained until nearer the end. Still, as I pressed on, I found this to be part of the charm of the book - it's a fractal story about fractal stories, and many of its pleasures derive from the fact that Andrew can look at a Batman comic and see everything from black holes to British politics reflected in it.
And hey, even when Mr Hickey doesn't get back round to a topic, I enjoyed getting to do a little bit of extra dot joining myself - a good indicator of how much I liked the book, that! So, for example: the realisation of the way the seemingly disconnected essay on the Melmoth chapter of Cerebus was actually an essential part of the ultrastructure was probably when I decided that this was A PROPER BOOK, whatever the hell that means! Melmoth is a tangle of interconnected fictions concerning the life and death of Oscar Wilde, and by writing about it early on Andrew underlines the complex relationship between the real and theoretical that runs through his book.
I've always been a big fan of art that expresses its themes in style as well as in content, and Sci-Ence! Justice Leak! manages to do this with great panache - it's a witty, esoteric tribute to lots of different sorts of freedom, and I can pretty much guarantee that you've never read anything like it!
There *is* a lot of Doctor Who in there though, so it's still quite a niche book, but if it's your niche then I suspect you might just love it...
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