Funny...a friend (a history professor in Boston, and formerly very skeptical about Buffy etc.) sent me the link this morning...he and his girlfriend are on Season 6, just one episode away from OMWF.

Neat that this book gets a review in the Sunday Times!

Chris inVirginia | February 25, 22:17 CET

This book is on my list, as I'm a bit of a science nerd; I love that it was reviewed in the New York Times. For the rest of the comic book fans here, there is also a book called "The Physics of Superheros" that's really good.

KatieB | February 26, 00:09 CET

Ooh, cool, got 'The Physics of Superheroes' but not started it yet, nice to hear it's a worthwhile read.

(BTW, my advice ? Avoid 'The Science of Superheroes' like the plague, very shallow, sometimes inaccurate and quite badly written. Bizarrely it actually works better as a potted history of superheroes but it's far from perfect as that. Not much good IMO)

Might pick this one up but it'd probably only be for completion's sake to be honest. Talking about entropy as it relates to the Slayer line highlights one of my issues with this particular book i.e. it's pretty reachy. Why would entropy apply to a process which is clearly magical and not, therefore, subject to physical law ?

(still, I guess it's a teaching device and as such doesn't necessarily need to be true)

Saje | February 26, 01:24 CET

This must be Buffy Sunday at the NYT! I wonder if the journalists of this and the OMWF article knew about each other's projects?

fanbuoyant | February 26, 01:35 CET

Hmph. Slow news day, must be.

[Looks out at all the reporters from the New York Times and other periodicals who surf by this page to see what we're saying about them.]

ZACH: *waves* No, I don't wanna subscription, but if a newspaper ever wants to pay me to write something, send me an email! Take care of yourselves! Be excellent to each other! Y'all come back now, y'hear?

[ edited by ZachsMind on 2007-02-26 01:06 ]

ZachsMind | February 26, 03:06 CET

congrats to the lovely-in-all-ways Jennifer Ouellette!

Am so jealous of your NYT book review. SO JEALOUS!

Allyson | February 26, 04:17 CET

Can't see the point of this book myself, Buffy and physics having so little in common. Put me down for "The Metaphysics of the Buffyverse" instead.

tichtich | February 26, 13:09 CET