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Two Fisted Science: Stories About Scientists Paperback – April 11, 2005

by Jim Ottaviani (Author), Mark Badger (Artist), Donna Barr (Artist),
3.2 3.2 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
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The first of its kind, Two-Fisted Science is a Xeric Award-winning and Eisner nominated original trade paperback featuring true stories from the history of science. From Galileo to Isaac Newton to Richard Feynman, you'll be amazed how the personalities of the scientists who shaped our world shaped the lives and discoveries. Some are serious, some are humorous, and all are compelling.
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  1. Print length
    128 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    G.T. Labs
  4. Publication date
    April 11, 2005
  5. Grade level
    4 - 6
  6. Reading age
    13 - 16 years
  7. Dimensions
    6.6 x 0.3 x 10 inches
  8. ISBN-10
    0966010620
  9. ISBN-13
    978-0966010626
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  • GBodine
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good book about science
    Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2013
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    My 15 year old science geek son loved this book. I'm getting him to read more books by getting him excited with graphic novels about science.
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  • Kim F. Collier
    1.0 out of 5 stars Inappropriate and unhelpful
    Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2004
    Written in cartoon format, I thought this book would be a lighter approach to a straight, dry, biography of scientists. However, it is written more like a series of political cartoons than cartoons for kids. The cartoons are barely understandable if the biography of the scientist is not already known, so using it as an initial reading is impossible. Further, some content is offensive. On the second page of cartoons, a scientist is walking along a bridge, thinking, when someone mistakenly believes he is getting ready to jump, saying, "No woman is worth committing suicide over." The pictures show a scantily-clad woman (with bare bottom in one frame) that he is now picturing in his mind. Irrelevant and inappropriate! Plus, I didn't have to go far to find swear words in the captions. Yikes! My kids will never see this book! It is not even appropriate for high-school age kids. (In fact, it isn't even funny to adults!)
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  • Phred
    3.0 out of 5 stars Some good cartoon art, but why was this book written?
    Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2015
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    Two Fisted Science is listed as the work of several graphic artists and writers. The back cover would have you believe that the purpose of the book is to help readers see scientists as humans. At best this is partially achieved.

    We get a more or less fictionalized retelling of Galileo's problems with the Catholic Church. This is followed by a completely fictional "bar fight "between Newton and Leibniz. Leibniz is shrugged off as a Lawyer when in fact he was a lot of things.

    The several sections on Richard Feynman includes the touching story of the tender love between himself and his dying wife as well as something of his mischievous sense of humor. Likely this section comes closest to capturing the person in the lab coat. Feynman also has the largest share of this short book. Bertrand Russell get a fairly clever and effective one page. Until you read that this is a version of a story based on something else. On the good side each section ends with some quality suggestions for additional reading.

    As a collection of graphic art there is something here for everyone who admires this art form but the text/story lines include too much that is vague and unenlightening and too little that is of human interest. If any scientist profiled in Two Fisted Science was unknown to you before reading the book, likely they remain unknown to you nor do you have much that tells you why a given scientist is profiled.
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  • T. Hickman
    3.0 out of 5 stars Accurate, but maybe aridly so
    Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2015
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    Being a science geek, I'm naturally interested in this subject matter. I was a *bit* disappointed in this book because the material is presented in a pretty dry fashion. I think there needs to be a bit more color and less slavish adherence to every letter and number in the history of science. Not falsifying but leaning more toward the human without being afraid to show disagreements, personality flaws, etc. The history of science is really the history of human beings, after all. I would recommend this book for anyone who, like me, slurps up Everything Science, but not, maybe, for a youngster who's just dipping her toes in the stream for the first time.
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  • 80th aero squadron
    5.0 out of 5 stars good insight fro past science
    Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2015
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    exactlamente stupendoso for real insight to great pioneers....
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  • Jean E. Pouliot
    5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty decent science stories! Pretty decent science stories! Pretty decent science stories! Pretty...
    Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2011
    Jim Ottaviani loves science and has a knack for finding tales that are intriguing and usually entertaining. "Two-fisted Science" is a short volume of graphic art that gives us several good short stories. We hear how Einstein, for all his genius, unable to wrap his head around quantum physics. We see how unsecret was atomic secrecy in the Soviet Union after the war. We see Galileo trying to pull a fast one on Church authorities who were trying to limit his inquiries. And we see Danish physicist Neils Bohr and German physicist Werner Heisenberg, meeting behind Nazi lines to discuss Nazi plans to build the Bomb.

    Ottaviani wrote most of the stories, with other artists doing the pen and ink work .The stories are almost lucid, evidently an Ottaviani trademark. I think of myself as well read, but I always feel as if I'm just missing some key bit of background info when reading his work. It might have helped, for instance, to know that Heisenberg worked for the Nazis and Bohr's mother was Jewish. And Bohr's reference to the Neupfadfinder movement left my completely at sea.

    Those who read Ottavianio's "Fallout" will recognize the stories of Richard Feynman, retold here almost word for word, but drawn by different artists. The Feynman material takes over half of this book. This will either be irritating to those who know the story, or fascinating to see how different artists treat the same source materials. For me, I found it baffling that Ottaviani would tell the same stories twice.

    "Two-fisted Science" is an admirable, but flawed attempt to make scientists seem like ordinary humans. The dashes of science that it doles out are tantalizing but thin. Sigh.
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  • Michael K. Smith
    5.0 out of 5 stars Listen in to some our greatest oddball minds . . .
    Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2003
    All the stories in this collection of "graphic fiction" were written by Ottaviani, but the artwork was supplied by ten artists, including Bernie Mireault and Scott Saavedra. The stories are based on real events (reportedly real, anyway) about Einstein, Russell, Bohr, Heisenberg, and others - and especially Richard Feynman, who was not only one of 20th century physics's major minds but an amateur locksmith, talented musician, social philosopher, and world-class storyteller as well. Some, like "turtles all the way down," are smile-inducing classics, while others, like Heisenberg's approach to Bohr on behalf on the German nuclear effort in World War II are somber and reflective. Feynman's own recounting of his brief, tragic marriage during the Manhattan Project is especially affecting, and the tale of his safe-cracking activities at Los Alamos and Oak Ridge are a hoot. Oh, and you'll even learn some physics theory along the way, or at least get a taste of how physicists view the world. I hope another volume like this is in the works.
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  • Dr L Karatzas
    2.0 out of 5 stars this was the most boring.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 11, 2016
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    Black and white, very short, disappointing... I have read other similar books in cartoon form, this was the most boring.
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