What if the research and development department created to produce the first atomic bomb was a front for a series of other, more unusual, programs?
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By Faustus
Format:Paperback
TMP is a wild fiction built around the real life creation of the first WWII atomic bomb. The build is simply a front for what the militant project leader identifies as "...more important concerns." He enlists the troubled scientist Oppenheimer, and a team of equally disturbed real life geniuses, to fulfil a very different agenda. More than once I was reminded of Mike Mignola; they're a kind of reverse B.P.R.D.
It's an engaging and far-reaching story that draws the reader in with hermetic secrets, drip-feeding future possibilities alongside some cryptic past histories.
However, holding back like it does made me question whether it'll come together in a satisfyingly cohesive manner. By the end of the book that question was still ringing in my mind. One thing is clear, though: it's a bubbling pot with two lids, neither of which is able to contain the inevitable -- there will be spillage.
Nick Pitarra provides art so successfully that it's hard to imagine the work being presented in any other style. He's not completely original (his influences are clear to see) but his vision gels with Hickman's wild sciences perfectly.
The colouring is as important as the art in getting the message across. It uses a palette of contrasting primary and tertiary colours that support the dualities present in the written word. It's beautifully presented.
It's an engaging and far-reaching story that draws the reader in with hermetic secrets, drip-feeding future possibilities alongside some cryptic past histories.
However, holding back like it does made me question whether it'll come together in a satisfyingly cohesive manner. By the end of the book that question was still ringing in my mind. One thing is clear, though: it's a bubbling pot with two lids, neither of which is able to contain the inevitable -- there will be spillage.
Nick Pitarra provides art so successfully that it's hard to imagine the work being presented in any other style. He's not completely original (his influences are clear to see) but his vision gels with Hickman's wild sciences perfectly.
The colouring is as important as the art in getting the message across. It uses a palette of contrasting primary and tertiary colours that support the dualities present in the written word. It's beautifully presented.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Noel
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The Manhattan Project, the scheme to construct a working atomic bomb, was the tip of the iceberg with Oppenheimer and co. working on an artificial intelligence computer with the brain of Franklin D Roosevelt, as well as some kind of stargate. But none of the major players in these projects are who you think they are. Oppenheimer, Einstein, Feynman all have secrets and demons. There are also parallel dimensions and aliens thrown in as well.
Jonathan Hickman presents an alternate take on a world-changing team of scientists and their most famous creation, jazzing things up with futuristic tech and destructive personalities all with different motivations and goals. As with a lot of Hickman's stuff, there are strands and threads that aren't fully answered like the parallel universes thing and the duality of characters was puzzling but this is a first book, I'm sure he'll get around to addressing this in later books.
Nevertheless this is an engrossing and fascinating read with the mix of reality and fiction providing the reader with lots to think about and enjoy. Hickman's twisted take on Oppenheimer being a highlight as well as giving Einstein a kind of Tony Stark flavour was cool. Imaginative, creative, fizzing with ideas and storylines, Hickman and Pitarra have crafted another fine book to hang their hats on; where will it end? Follow the trail through the stargate...
Jonathan Hickman presents an alternate take on a world-changing team of scientists and their most famous creation, jazzing things up with futuristic tech and destructive personalities all with different motivations and goals. As with a lot of Hickman's stuff, there are strands and threads that aren't fully answered like the parallel universes thing and the duality of characters was puzzling but this is a first book, I'm sure he'll get around to addressing this in later books.
Nevertheless this is an engrossing and fascinating read with the mix of reality and fiction providing the reader with lots to think about and enjoy. Hickman's twisted take on Oppenheimer being a highlight as well as giving Einstein a kind of Tony Stark flavour was cool. Imaginative, creative, fizzing with ideas and storylines, Hickman and Pitarra have crafted another fine book to hang their hats on; where will it end? Follow the trail through the stargate...
Format:Paperback
Hickman is a clever writer, but this is an example of cleverness coming first, and that's not enough. For me to be engaged by a story I need to care about at least some aspects of what's going on. Instead, this is all about Hickman being clever, with some admittedly interesting riffing on some familiar sf ideas. It's well executed, but ultimately if I'm not engaged I'm not drawn to follow the story any further.
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