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A review by panda_incognito
Bomb (Graphic Novel): The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin, Nick Bertozzi
3.0
The original Bomb book is one of my all-time favorite nonfiction titles, and unsurprisingly, this graphic novel adaptation can't live up to it. It's good, and it will appeal to graphic novel fans, but there are too many people, locations, and scientific concepts involved for this adaptation to work ideally.
This book is very text-heavy, with dialogue pulled from primary sources and imagined based on people's known characters, and much of the dialogue involves scientific discussion that will go over most reader's heads. The story includes explanations of how and why the atomic bomb worked, but someone will need a major interest in and background with science to follow a lot of the dialogue, instead of it just being techno-speak where you know that they know what they're talking about.
This book will appeal to fans of the original work, and to people who are interested in nonfiction graphic novels. However, this graphic novel is definitely not a replacement for the original book. It is much more limited in what it can cover and explain, and also lacks many of the fascinating details of the scientists' everyday life in Los Alamos, focusing on the science element over many of the slice-of-life and group dynamics details that I found so intriguing in the original work.
This book is very text-heavy, with dialogue pulled from primary sources and imagined based on people's known characters, and much of the dialogue involves scientific discussion that will go over most reader's heads. The story includes explanations of how and why the atomic bomb worked, but someone will need a major interest in and background with science to follow a lot of the dialogue, instead of it just being techno-speak where you know that they know what they're talking about.
This book will appeal to fans of the original work, and to people who are interested in nonfiction graphic novels. However, this graphic novel is definitely not a replacement for the original book. It is much more limited in what it can cover and explain, and also lacks many of the fascinating details of the scientists' everyday life in Los Alamos, focusing on the science element over many of the slice-of-life and group dynamics details that I found so intriguing in the original work.