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A Miracle of Science
In the year 2148, the biggest threat to interplanetary civilization is a plague of mad scientists. The Vorstellen Police were formed to track down and neutralize these threats to society using whatever technology they can bring to bear.
A Miracle of Science is a romantic comedy revolving around an unlikely pair of police officers and an even more unlikely criminal, set in this world of Science Gone Mad.
A Miracle of Science is a romantic comedy revolving around an unlikely pair of police officers and an even more unlikely criminal, set in this world of Science Gone Mad.
- GenresHumorScience Fiction
435 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2007
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June 8, 2016
I read this in webcomic form, and wouldn't mind owning a copy at some point in the future. Honestly, I don't see the art as its strongest point. I have seen more visually attractive webcomics. But the art does convey the story in a non-distracting way, and the story is very fun, and was emotionally engaging for me to the point where I have reread it at least four times since my initial reading. This is a buddy-cop story involving a human detective who specializes in tracking down mad scientists, and a member of the Martian hive mind. I don't know how much more I can say without spoilers. :)
January 11, 2015
The setting for this comic had a couple of really neat bits of worldbuilding in them.
The "mad scientist disease" ("Science Related Memetic Disorder") is a great way of having fun with all the usual tropes of mad science while hanging a lampshade on them. The protagonist, Benjamin, is a police officer who specializes in dealing with mad scientists and he knows how to exploit their various systemic weaknesses (such as their need to explain their plans to prisoners, for example). The implications of such a mental disorder existing are fairly thoroughly explored, including the notion that it might not be an exclusively bad thing. One could draw some analogies to real-life issues such as how often creative geniuses are also afflicted with bipolar disorder or other such problems.
The other really neat bit of worldbuilding, quite literally, is the group-mind that is the planet Mars. Group minds are almost universally depicted as "evil" in science fiction, or at least as alien and inscrutable. But although Benjamin has some of that prejudice, Mars is portrayed as quite a personable character and one of its member-minds becomes a full-blown second protagonist who has a full-blown personality of her own.
There's a plot to go with all this worldbuilding too, an unusually capable Mad Scientist that Mars and Benjamin are teamed up to take down. I thoroughly enjoyed both the story and the setting.
The art does start out a little bit on the rough side, but it improves over the course of the comic and is quite serviceable by the end with a couple of notably neat scenes here and there.
The "mad scientist disease" ("Science Related Memetic Disorder") is a great way of having fun with all the usual tropes of mad science while hanging a lampshade on them. The protagonist, Benjamin, is a police officer who specializes in dealing with mad scientists and he knows how to exploit their various systemic weaknesses (such as their need to explain their plans to prisoners, for example). The implications of such a mental disorder existing are fairly thoroughly explored, including the notion that it might not be an exclusively bad thing. One could draw some analogies to real-life issues such as how often creative geniuses are also afflicted with bipolar disorder or other such problems.
The other really neat bit of worldbuilding, quite literally, is the group-mind that is the planet Mars. Group minds are almost universally depicted as "evil" in science fiction, or at least as alien and inscrutable. But although Benjamin has some of that prejudice, Mars is portrayed as quite a personable character and one of its member-minds becomes a full-blown second protagonist who has a full-blown personality of her own.
There's a plot to go with all this worldbuilding too, an unusually capable Mad Scientist that Mars and Benjamin are teamed up to take down. I thoroughly enjoyed both the story and the setting.
The art does start out a little bit on the rough side, but it improves over the course of the comic and is quite serviceable by the end with a couple of notably neat scenes here and there.
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