Watch the review or read it below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCPxWd7MbYo If you like space opera / frivolous sci fi or parody, you’ll like this one. It manages to be amusing but not so silly that you feel like it’s a waste of time. Rather it’s a solid sci fi story with a flippant central character who makes light of every situation. Some may find the character annoying—certainly other characters in the book do—but I rather enjoyed the character’s ability to see everything, no matter how dire, in a light-hearted way. The skill of the author is shown in his ability to maintain a sense of drama amongst the slapstick style. Cal is supported by a cast of interesting characters: a dog woman, a mostly mechanical man with super strength, an officer for the corporation who sends them on their possibly hopeless mission across the reaches of space, and a ball of slime with the ability to take any shape it wants. Cal’s relationship with the ball of slime is quite endearing. The … [Read more...]
Fun – City of Deceit by Steph Bennion
BUY NOW City of Deceit is the third book in the Hollow Moon series, a space opera tale set in a fascinating future world where India has a colony on another planet and some of the characters live in a man-made hollow moon. The world building is excellent, the characters intriguing and the action a mix of drama and an occasional scene of pure slapstick that had me chuckling away. The prose is also excellent and includes some real gems, such as: “The ship’s extra-dimensional drive whirred into life, punched a ten-light-year hole through reality and whisked the spacecraft away on a vomit-inducing sideways roll through space-time.” Though this is essentially a light hearted tale, it has—as all good space opera has—a dark underside; in this case it’s one of political wheeling and dealing and secret agendas. Though you could read this as a stand-alone novel, it will undoubtably be better if you’ve read the previous two books. Without the previous books the beginning may feel a … [Read more...]
