things people should write me, #4533

[schmerica]

So I just read this YA book that took place at Los Alamos during WWII, when all the scientists were holed up there working really really hard and it was all super top secret classified and nobody knew the place even existed at all. The book was about these two young girls growing up there while their parents worked on the bomb, but unfortunately the book (The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages) was not actually that good -- it was sort of generic-historical-younger-readers, you know? But now I kind of want a Manhatten Project bandom AU. All obsessive and smart and working incredibly hard under so much pressure and nobody else in the world knows what's going on! That's fascinating.

So, uh. Get on that, fandom! :D?

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[strobelighted.livejournal.com]

oooooooooooooh, i would read that!

[tekona.livejournal.com]

Los Alamos from Below (http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/14/) is a really interesting talk/essay by Richard Feynman. Day-to-day shenanigans by a brilliant, cocky man, plus spies and terminal illness in the background. Can't recommend it enough. Plus it's short!

[happy-coconut.livejournal.com]

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Robert Oppenheimer was hot?

[akire-yta.livejournal.com]

OMG, I WANT THIS LIKE BURNING

science, history and bandom. my three favourite things to read about.

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Who would be doing what? The great scienctists? The girls chafing because they could only do lab tech work, or be wives. The jealousies and the discoveries...damn, who to cast as what!

[kws136.livejournal.com]

Um. I may have ... started it? It's in the VERY early stages, okay, and I promise NOTHING because I can start stories with the best of 'em, but I can never figure out where to GO with things like ... plots, so. Just ... prepare for disappointment, okay?

But ... it sounded like a really good idea. And my undergrad degree is in Nuclear Engineering, so ... I'm kind of the woman for the job. Or something. But ... well. We'll see if I can get the boys to, you know - DO ANYTHING. AT ALL.