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Bellwether
Sandra Foster studies why people adopt fads. A misdelivered package brings her together with Bennett O'Reilly, whose research on chaos has run into trouble. Their employer, HiTek, provides plenty of disruptions; their new joint project supplies a flock of sheep.
From the publisher’s blurb
“she explores the intimate relationship between science, pop culture, and the arcane secrets of the heart.”Read the full description at Spectra publisher description
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What makes it funny?
Flip, the mail employee who keeps disrupting Sandra's work, gives the office an inexhaustible supply of mishaps. The jokes follow the researchers through wrong deliveries and narrowly missed connections, with Sandra keeping a sharp eye on everyone else's foolish behavior.
The comedy at work
Willis gives the researchers a practical demonstration of their subject. The disorder that complicates scientific work also drives the screwball romance, while the sheep make human herd behavior an especially pointed subject for study.
Try this if…
Office satire with a scientific puzzle and a developing romance. The appeal lies in watching observant people work around a corporation's daily foolishness.
Good to know
Publishers Weekly enjoyed the comedy but found the plot's direction easy to guess and Sandra's tolerance of Flip frustrating.
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