Einstein, courtesy of tough girls!

[roseembolism]

I am bemused by the idea behind this book. I mean, talk about high concept: renegade "tsundere girls" (feisty, bad-tempered girls with a hidden romantic side) teach a young dweeb relativity, as part of battling evil world-dominating luddites.

The blurb for it gives a bit more information:

It also has a backstory! It is the year 2015, after the world has been devastated by a war over "misguided science." An "No-Science" nation has arisen from the ashes, seeking the elimination of scientific knowledge, including that most dangerous of theories, General Relativity. It is up to the secret organization, "The Einstein Club," to preserve knowledge...for the future!

And then there's the cover:



This is just delirious. I mean, when Heinlein was doing this sort of stuff, he at least tried to hide the purpose of the girls he inserted between the lectures in his stories. Hopefully this manga will actually have a better grasp of relativity than Heinlein did.

Comments

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

I would love to look inside and see if it's anything like this book.

[baronlaw.livejournal.com]

Probably the same book, just different cover art. ;)

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

No doubt, only with big guns and shorter skirts.

[mithriltabby]

Give them bonus points if the future is without functional GPS because they turned off the relativistic correction. (When they were developing it, one of the team didn’t believe in general relativity, so they put a switch in the code for turning the correction on and off to show the guy was wrong.)

[baronlaw.livejournal.com]

"Didn't believe in it"

LOLOLOLOL

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Really? Oh that is just too amusing!

[seawasp]

That's what the Conspiracy wants you to THINK! Actually they CLAIMED that they were putting in a switch for the relativistic correction, while what they were REALLY doing was putting in a switch for the "create relativistic deviation" function so as to maintain the fiction of relativity!

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't take much searching to find web sites seriously saying the same thing. It sometimes makes me whistful for the rational nature and refined debate of the old days on Usenet.

[palecur.livejournal.com]

I think Heinlein's concept of 'relativity' involved time travel and seducing your close relatives.

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

I was going to say this but you beat me to it. You must have had a time machine of your own.

[palecur.livejournal.com]

"Hey, baby, want to trace our family trees?"

[haamel.livejournal.com]

Wow... just wow. If there's anything to take away from this foray into creative writing, it's that we have not yet mined all possible concepts in fiction yet. If there's any truth in cover art (astronomically unlikely, I know), this war over SCIENCE(tm) looks a lot more fun than the Butlerian Jihad...

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

If the pro-technology forces had cute girls with big guns during the Butlerian Jihad, I'm sure that things would have gone the other way.

There's a moral here:

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

*looks at number of comments*

Hm. Note to self: if I want replies, I need to do more posts involving cute girls in torn blouses, carrying big guns.