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Summary: A taste of Mutant power
Review: Overall I would say this is an quality read. The different views of the manifestaions of mutant powers were intriguing. It covered a good deal of my favorite X-MEN but I want to read about some of the others. My only complaint about Science of the X-MEN would be the numerous amount of typos. It really took away from making this book excellent. Especially since this was such a scientific book. (Spell check anyone?) But other than that I like this and would recommend it.
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Summary: From a Scientist's P.O.V..... uncredible
Review: Personally speaking as a long-time X-men fan, I find this book an interesting piece of fiction...but not as interesting as the fiction which motivates it. The Physics of Star Trek succeeds where this book fails simply because it is written by a scientist who can see the mistakes in the logic of Star Trek yet is able to admire the prescience and veracity of its many writers. X-men is mostly based on a biological phenomenon, yet this book is quick to point out how all of their powers are so mysteriously derived. And when the authors are stumped, they owe the powers to mini-wormholes within the characters' bodies. This book is interesting to fans because it features characters they know and love, but it is a horrendous atrocity to anyone who would like to ponder the origin of mutant powers. These authors have nothing on Stan Lee and his cosmic rays, gamma rays and radioactive spiders. I can bear the typos, but the complete lack of parsimony is appalling.
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Summary: making it
Review: poop should have been included in this book which has some very interesting insight into the world of the x-men all together a very well thought out and researched book POOP POOP POOP POOOP POOOOOOOOOP POOOOOOOOOP
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Summary: SCIENCE OF THE X-MEN OPENS NEW VISTAS
Review: Science of the X-men amazes me. I am a professor of Popular Culture. I am impressed by its intelligence and breath of knowledge. The book explains what can be explained scientifically, then goes on to speculate about possible scientific explainations for extraordinary powers. All this is done in ordinary, easy to understand language, with a light touch and wit. Long time fans of the X-men comics and the millions that saw the breathtaking X-men movie will enjoy this as well as scholars with a speculative turn of mind.
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Summary: Typos, Bad Editing and Worse Science
Review: Several reviewers have commented on the lack of editing of this book and I agree. The repeated paragraphs and self-contradiction were infuriating. I counted at least four places where the text contradicted itself within 3 pages. But I would not be writing this review if it weren't for the abysmal science writing. I will resist quoting the numerous glaring factual errors I ran across (OK I have a science background) and will not name the even more frequent statements which seemed to make no sense at all (Quanta are smaller than atoms. Huh?) But force, energy and power are confused while trying to explain the units, Evolutionary theory is thrashed, and fresh pseudo-science is provided to replace the already existing pseudo-science of the comics.
The only correct factual material appears to be cut and pasted from the Encyclopedia Brittanica and reads with less grace. If you want to read about the thresholds of science read Charles Sheffield or someone else who gets their facts straight. If you want to read about the Marvel characters stick to Stan Lee.
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Summary: Typos, Bad Editing and Worse Science
Review: Several reviewers have commented on the lack of editing of this book and I agree. The repeated paragraphs and self-contradiction were infuriating. I counted at least four places where the text contradicted itself within 3 pages. But I would not be writing this review if it weren't for the abysmal science writing. I will resist quoting the numerous glaring factual errors I ran across (OK I have a science background) and will not name the even more frequent statements which seemed to make no sense at all (Quanta are smaller than atoms. Huh?) But force, energy and power are confused while trying to explain the units, Evolutionary theory is thrashed, and fresh pseudo-science is provided to replace the already existing pseudo-science of the comics.
The only correct factual material appears to be cut and pasted from the Encyclopedia Brittanica and reads with less grace. If you want to read about the thresholds of science read Charles Sheffield or someone else who gets their facts straight. If you want to read about the Marvel characters stick to Stan Lee.
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Summary: X-Tremely Poor
Review: The concept of this book is excellent and the introduction is good. This completes the list of nice things I have to say about the book. The artwork varies from good to dismal, the science is often poor or simply wrong (a list of my favorites: Stephen Jay Gould is a controversial evolutionist!, most scientists believe evolution of higher life forms from nothing is inevitable(?), superstring theory is presented as a fact, only primitive civilizations have polytheistic religions(I'd love to know where he got this one from and how the Hindus of the world feel about it), and the section on the Brood shows such a fundamental lack of understanding of evolutionary theory that I was almost in tears). I might even have overlooked these glaring problems if the writing about the characters had been good, but quite frankly, it wasn't. The author mentions the possibility of sequels in the introduction; in response I say: Please don't.
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Summary: Wait for a second edition
Review: The editing in this book is abysmal, from verbatim repetitions to errors like "here motions" instead of "her emotions" (Storm section). While this doesn't affect the content, it makes this book a frustrating read. Several of the character sections are rather unfocused and follow tangents of tangents. Some sections discuss scientific phenomenon that have nothing to do with the mutants' powers, but are merely related topics. While some readers may be interested in these facts, I personally wanted more focus on the mutant powers themselves.
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Summary: Wait for a second edition
Review: The editing in this book is abysmal, from verbatim repititions to errors like "here motions" instead of "her emotions". While errors like this seem minor, they make this book a frustrating read. Several sections are very unfocused: rather than attempting to explain a mutant's powers, those sections describe various tangentially-related scientific phenomena. While this may interest some readers, I would prefer better focus on viable explanations for the powers. Overall, the idea behind this book has a lot of potential, but the reality is disappointing.
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Summary: Wait for a second edition
Review: The editing in this book is abysmal, from verbatim repititions to errors like "here motions" instead of "her emotions". While errors like this seem minor, they make this book a frustrating read. Several sections are very unfocused: rather than attempting to explain a mutant's powers, those sections describe various tangentially-related scientific phenomena. While this may interest some readers, I would prefer better focus on viable explanations for the powers. Overall, the idea behind this book has a lot of potential, but the reality is disappointing.
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