Female Science Professor is revisiting an old topic, namely, the academic novel:
I was thinking about the general topic of academic novels because I was looking for some books to read and was looking through the lists in the links above. And then I wondered: Why do I want to read an academic novel during the summer? Why do I want to read an academic novel at all? What is it that I like about (some of) them?
This seems like a good opportunity to both have a discussion and do some science. There are three steps to the experiment:
- Leave a comment here saying what your favorite academic novel is.
- Go over to FSP and leave a comment saying why you like or dislike academic novels.
- Based on the data from the first two steps, decide which comment system is more annoying: Blogger’s login/captcha/multi-click thing, or ScienceBlogs’ apparent timeout thing. I’ll put up another post later to determine the results.
(Please be aware that, despite the timeout message, comments submitted to this blog almost always go through the first time. Do not re-post the comment without first hitting “Refresh” to see whether it’s shown up.)