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Sci-Ence! Justice Leak! [Kindle Edition]

Andrew Hickey
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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… well, you’re probably right. But in this book Andrew Hickey will try to convince you otherwise. In doing so he’ll take you through:

How to escape from a black hole and when you might not want to
The scientist who thinks he’s proved the existence of heaven and what that has to do with Batman
What to do if you discover you’re a comic-book character
Whether killing your own grandfather is really a bad idea
And how to escape from The Life Trap!

An examination of the comics of Grant Morrison, Alan Moore and Jack Kirby, Doctor Who spin-off media, and how we tell stories to each other, Sci-Ence! Justice Leak! tells you to look around you and say:

“This is an imaginary universe… Aren’t they all?”

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 468 KB
  • Print Length: 166 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1446730425
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B004LLIJG6
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #231,745 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
As Above, So Below! 11 Dec 2011
Format:Paperback
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...
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