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STARSHIP REPO – Patrick S. Tomlinson
What happens if you don’t make your payments on the starship you’re flying? It gets repossessed, of course. But what does it take to repossess a starship? Firstname Lastname is about to find out. Firstname Lastname is a young woman (and yes, that’s really her legal name, due to a clerical error, but she goes Continue reading
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CREATIVITY: A SHORT AND CHEERFUL GUIDE – John Cleese
Who better to write a book about creativity than John Cleese?! If you pick up this book thinking it will be a Monty Python-like humor book, you might be disappointed. But if you pick this up hoping to find some tips on how to discover or enhance your own creativity (as well as why it’s Continue reading
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WILLFUL CHILD: THE SEARCH FOR SPARK – Steven Erikson
Captain Hadrian Sawbuck and his rag-tag crew of the Starship Willful Child continue their unusual adventures, bringing chaos and disrepute to the galaxy around them. Sawbuck isn’t the brightest LED on the console but he’s full of confidence and he’s forever trying to laid. And maybe they are trying to accomplish a goal, but the Continue reading
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FLOODGATE – Johnny Shaw
In what is probably the worst city in America, given the amount of crime and corruption, Auction City is at a cross-roads of sorts. Police officer Andy Destra has uncovered solid evidence that there is corruption at the highest levels of the police department. Destra, who tries to be a good, decent cop in this Continue reading
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THE OLD SEX SYMPHONY – Vincent Kane
I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ve long been fascinated by the idea that music and literature are very similar in the way that themes are presented and developed and a story is told, using notes instead of words. For this reason I’ve been eager to read music-related fiction to see if the Continue reading
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MAD LIBRARIAN – Michael Guillebeau
A library in a small town in the southern United States has its funding cut by the city and the librarian, Serenity, fights back in an unusual way. There is a slight sense of Catch-22 or M*A*S*H (the book series) humor here, with average people doing absurd things in order to get a positive result, Continue reading
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DON’T TOUCH THE BLUE STUFF – Rob Dirks
It’s hard to find good, well-written humorous science fiction. There are a few authors still writing in this genre that are worth reading and Rob Dirks is definitely one to look for. Don’t Touch the Blue Stuff! is a follow-up to Dirks’ Where the Hell is Tesla? which I enjoyed quite a bit (see my Continue reading
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WASTE OF SPACE – Gina Damico
Waste of Space by Gina Damico is a very clever idea, written in an interesting (appropriate for the subject matter) style, but still mostly a long, drawn-out story that doesn’t have the payoff for sticking with the book. Some not quite top-of-the-line Hollywood producers are looking for the next great reality show and team up Continue reading
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HE STARTED IT!: MY TWITTER WAR WITH TRUMP – Danny Zuker
While I would very much like to keep politics out of this blog (and this review), that’s going to be a little difficult with the reviewing of this book. First I feel as though I need to note that I am not a fan of Donald Trump. Not his politics, not his behavior, not his Continue reading
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WILLFUL CHILD – Steven Erikson
I requested this book four years ago and over time I’ve forgotten what it might have been about so I began to read this ‘blind’. Lately I’ve also been interested in reading some humorous fiction, so imagine my delight to begin reading and discovering that this isn’t just a humorous story, it’s a parody that Continue reading
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KILLING IS MY BUSINESS – Adam Christopher
I love this series. I recently reviewed an anthology of humorous sci-fi novellas and I mentioned that I had been in the mood for some good, fun, and funny sci-fi. That anthology did NOT do the trick, but the Ray Electromatic Mystery series works wonderfully. Raymond Electromatic is a robot. He is the last working Continue reading
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