Review: Captain Quasar and Hank to the rescue. A space opera comedy... 4 1/2 Stars
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 19, 2012
"Captain Bartholomew Quasar and the Insurmountable Barrier of Space Junk" is a short story by author Milo James Fowler. This Kindle e-book was a 116 Kb download and sell for $0.99 at the time of writing this review.BTW, this book also contains two addition short works involving Captain Quasar.Background: I'd just finished several flash fiction tales (stories of 500 - 1000 words) by this author and liked them enough to try something of his that was a little longer.This tale was a short space opera comedy... told tongue in cheek, using the witty and bantering conversation between the good Captain and his chief navigator, Hank... who just happens to be a 4 armed, hairy biped that appears as you might imagine an offspring of a sloth/orangutan union..He (Hank) is left to make good on the Captain's unlikely solutions to seemingly unsolvable situations. Never mind that success is highly improbable, because the predicaments they find themselves in are absurd and no one really seems to care whether they succeed or not.It appears that the author intends to make these incredulous adventures into a series... the Captain Quasar Chronicles. And judging from the entertainment value in these short works, he may do very well with it.Actually I liked the second story in this book "Popularity Contest on Goobalox Five" even better than the title work.These three short works are good value of $0.99.As it is... 4 1/2 Stars.Ray Nicholsonraynicholsonsreviews@hotmail.com