A sputtering start (two protagonists introduced and killed off inside 50p) gives way to a servicable, somewhat (absurdly) humourous 'friller that will at least keep the pages turning. Some of it is surprising, some of it predictable and the exposition could be handled better, but if you liked Redshi...
I should have reviewed this right after I finished listening to it, but I just wanted to move on to something else. My memories of certain details may be a bit fuzzy, but I'll do the best I can.The story: A human diplomat figures out how to use his own farts to get revenge against the Nidu diplomat ...
I listened to Will Wheaton's audiobook performance of this one, rather than reading it, and I'd recommend it mainly as pleasant background noise; it's entertaining, but a bit on the formulaic side.
The beginning of the story begins with a man named Dirk Moeller using an apparatus to allow him to pass gas at an alien species called The Nidu and insult a trade delegate that is Nidu enough to bring about an international incident with this species and Earth.Through a lot of political maneuvering ...
This started off like one of R.A. Lafferty's Retief novels, but then switched gear to a more conventional save-the-planet thriller. It's not quite a comedy, but there is some sassy banter between the leads, Harry and Robin, that sets a lighter tone. Scalzi has fun with his competing agencies (modell...
Reading John Scalzi is like going in expecting to read a nice little satire of science fiction, and then suddenly being slammed with the most outrageous concept ever but it’s very straight-faced and at the end you’re sitting there thinking “What the fuck did I just read? I know it’s good. But what t...
Okay, this is more like 3.895674 stars, or something. The Android's Dream, a knowing reference to Philip K. Dick even in the novel, takes place in a version of the near/distant future where Earth is part of an interstellar alliance known as the Common Confederation, and aliens are just everyday bu...
Android's Dream is a creative and solid mash-up of classic sci-fi tropes. The temptation to let the narrative spin out of control must have been quite overwhelming - with an intergalactic Confederation of weird alien races, a mutli-layered conspiracy that threatens to doom the earth to a colonial o...
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