I never heard of that book.
Comics do use science. Especially modern ones.
Warren Ellis has a huge interest in science and much of the theory makes its way into his books. Same with a few other writers.
Science fiction has given us the most new technology though.
Jules Verne conceived the Submarine. He also wrote about the Hollow Earth theory before it was even concidered.
H.G. Wells was the first to conceive of Time travel and of alien Invasion and space travel for that matter.
Issac Asimov is responsible for Computers and robotics and interplanetary colonization. Not just as Ideas, but as factual research since Asimov was a scientist.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Lets not forget that behind all of the techno babble on Star Trek, we got the modern Cell phone. The shows Tricorder device has also found its way into reality with an invention last year of a medical device that could dicern injuries just by passing it over an injured person. Being tested now in Afganistan.
Not to mention increasing interest and motivating the youth into scientific fields such as Stealth technology and Teleportation.
Most Science Fiction writers are considered "FUTURISTS", because they conceive of devices in their stories that inevitabley become reality.
Fantasy, can do the same thing to certain degrees. For example, the series I am reading now, "The Wheel of Time" one set of characters in it wear these cloaks that are leftover technology from an age before which work as a cross between Camoflage and the Stealth Cloak you mentioned.
This is why I read such a wide variety of genres. You never know what you will come across.
Horror for example is done the best when the author focuses more on the people in the story. What they are like, what motivates them, what they do in the situations presented in the story.
That is Steven Kings strength. His stories are never about the monster, but the people.
Take the MIST which is on DVD. you have 30 people trapped in a grocery store while giant insects from another reality are everywhere. As the paranoia and fear increase, the people start to divide along idialogical lines of Religion-vs-Reason. Violence insues between them, even though a greater threat exists right outside of the door.
King puts all of his focus on the characters that you realize that at the end of the day not only are we our own worst enemies, but the old adage of nothing to fear but fear itself comes into full bloom.
I have actually learned a lot about people from reading his books.
