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.

[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.)

[palecur.livejournal.com]

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

[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...

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.