First, the seller: Quick, competent response. The book arrived promptly; securely and protectively packaged. I'm 100% satisfied with the seller's service.
Second, the book. Oh my! Oh yes! The book is exactly what the title suggests, an intelligent, skeptical but ultimately supportive description of how the Science does, or at least could work in the Universe (capital U) of Buffy Summers' Sunnydale and (Bonus!) Angel's Los Angeles.
Author Jennifer Oulette writes brilliantly; she presents specific situations, conditions, actions and possible paradoxes of events in the "Buffy/Angel-verses" and then provides delightfully readable, engaging and comprehensible descriptions of the physics that may support the science of the fiction. Make no mistake, Oulette is not an apologist; she does not stretch the fabric of reality (pun intended) to accommodate the scripts. But she does a great job of writing to the contradictions, where they exist. And while she does so, she commits to her audience. Oulette is (probably) a fan. She is most certainly a physicist who respects BtVS' fans and importantly, the Mutant Enemy Production's writing team's efforts to provide more than a modicum of hard science to underpin their plot devices. The physics explained in "The Physics of the Buffyverse" will not satisfy every physics knowledgeable fan of the Buffy and Angel milieu, that is not the book's intent. The ambition behind "The Physics of the Buffyverse" is to simultaneously enhance the viewing experience while introducing legitimate physics to any discourse about the shows.
I'm a BtVS fan: Today, more than a decade after Buffy made the choice to save the world at the price of destroying Sunnydale, I still laugh, gasp, clap and cry when I re-watch the show. Among the many bookshelves in my home, I have two shelves dedicated to "Buff Stuff," books and materials that are "BtVS." Along with Rhonda Wilcox's "Why Buffy Matters," Jennifer Ouelette's non-fiction thesis form the spine of my collection. These two books, without pretense or hubris, suggest that Buffy Summers, the Vampire Slayer, is one of Western Literature's most original, authentic, evocative and provocative creations.
One negative comment about "The Physics of the Buffyverse," the cover only works if you're holding the book. The devil is in the details (again, pun intended). The big, red, demonic face looks like pulp fiction. The tiny diagrams in and around the face...represent.
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Science with a splash of Buffy...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 10, 2012