Review: Ingenious
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 24, 2013
Space Orville by Jeff Whelan is one of the most ingenious novels I've read since Douglas Adam's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The novel is well-written and caught my attention from the first page.Sixteen-year-old Space Orville finds himself whisked from his work as a game tester for Morphean DigiCards in Torus 23, a donut shaped habitat in space. He and his companion, NeutroFuzz, to help capture an escaped convict from a maximum security penal moon, Mordan Quel.Adventures abound as he meets some of the most unique beings and maneuvers through space encountering things he's never even dreamed of.Jeff Whelan has to have one of the most incredible minds of the century to have created the vast number of alien life forms, planetary systems, and mind-bending problems that needed to be solved for Space Orville to achieve his goal.And last but not least, we must not forget NeutroFuzz, a shimmering bundle of neon noise, as he goes thimmering, bippering, and finkling along, helping Space Orville at every turn. NeutroFuzz is the most wonderful sidekick I've ever met.Thanks for the fun-filled read, Jeff; I hope you write another book soon. I give this book 4.5 stars.