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Summary: If you can find it...
Review: This book was simply incredible. I picked it up in a train station bookstore for something to do on the 22 hour ride to Florida. I don't think I slept the entire 22 hours. Serious Sci-Fi mixed with great humour make this a must-read for any Science Fiction fan.
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Summary: A brilliant satire of humanity's first contact with aliens.
Review: This is by far one of my favorite books. Briefly, it concerns mankind's reaction to the landing of an alien spaceship in Central park.
This book is somewhat distinctive in that it takes into account both humanity's resourcefulness and its perversity. With humor typical of the authors, in a linguistic mishap the aliens accidently abduct a street gang instead of the construction crew they had had their sights on. The resulting hijinks end with the Earth being put on Galactic interdiction, complete with a police blockade. Naturally, humanity isn't going to take this insult lying down! I mean, they're only aliens, after all. The second part of the novel deals with the good guys' attempt to contact the ruling council of the Galaxy in a half completed spaceship built with stolen and barely understood technology. In the process, they must defeat an interstellar blackmarketeer and criminal organization, in addition to the Great Golden Ones (the star cops).
This book will have you in stitches within the first chapter-- guaranteed. Don't pick it up unless you have a healthy chunk of free time on your hands, or extrodinary willpower. You won't be able to put it down.
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Summary: A brilliant satire of humanity's first contact with aliens.
Review: This is by far one of my favorite books. Briefly, it concerns mankind's reaction to the landing of an alien spaceship in Central park. This book is somewhat distinctive in that it takes into account both humanity's resourcefulness and its perversity. With humor typical of the authors, in a linguistic mishap the aliens accidently abduct a street gang instead of the construction crew they had had their sights on. The resulting hijinks end with the Earth being put on Galactic interdiction, complete with a police blockade. Naturally, humanity isn't going to take this insult lying down! I mean, they're only aliens, after all. The second part of the novel deals with the good guys' attempt to contact the ruling council of the Galaxy in a half completed spaceship built with stolen and barely understood technology. In the process, they must defeat an interstellar blackmarketeer and criminal organization, in addition to the Great Golden Ones (the star cops). This book will have you in stitches within the first chapter-- guaranteed. Don't pick it up unless you have a healthy chunk of free time on your hands, or extrodinary willpower. You won't be able to put it down.
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Summary: Aliens Attack! - well sort of.....
Review: This novel was more fun than I anticipated. Aliens land in New York and the UN first contact team takes over the world to deal with them. This is almost 2 books. The first half deals with the first aliens who land on earth and the second half what earth does in retaliaton to what they find out about people-out-there.
This book sends up tonnes of standard SF stories and is fully tounge-in-cheek. It has a cast of eccentric characters and aliens who really aren't any better or worse than humanity itself.
For a fun satire on the whole SF genre this book is a good read (as long as you aren't expecting anything too sophisticated..)
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Summary: SF/Humor
Review: This was my first novel with Phil Foglio, and we actually used hammers and 'Crowbars' to stuff it full of jokes, amazing wonders, pyrotechnic battles, and bizarre aliens.
Please note: that while both the Wildside Press, and TSR editions have the wonderful cover-art by my partner, only the old TSR version carries the internal illustrations.
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Summary: SF/Humor
Review: This was my first novel with Phil Foglio, and we actually used hammers and 'Crowbars' to stuff it full of jokes, amazing wonders, pyrotechnic battles, and bizarre aliens.
Please note: that while both the Wildside Press, and TSR editions have the wonderful cover-art by my partner, only the old TSR version carries the internal illustrations.
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