Review: If you like comedic sci-fi, pick this one up!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 17, 2013
If you're looking for realism, you may want to head to a different aisle. Monahan is very like Douglas Adams in feeling but his story is in actuality quite different. When Charlie is mistaken for a robot the plot device makes sense to the reader. He got his job by being mistaken for someone else. His mother called because she found his number in her book and didn't remember him. The dialogue is a bit stilted but how does one talk to an alien? Would a dictatorial human character in the book comfort an alien when he's crying and try to help? To readers it may seem unlikely but this is a whacked-out reality and the ability to suspend disbelief is as essential and as logical as a one-eyed alien hooker whose pimp removed her other two eyes.If there's anything I like better than sci-fi/comedy, it's meta-fiction. At the finish of this novel we get a healthy dose of meta-fiction that paired with the nonsensical nature of what we just read, makes for that shade of brilliance. It is time to break up with this novel and these characters and move to the next. Savor that satisfied feeling because soon you will experience the ups and downs of another read and another life. This is in no way a spoiler. This is the reality of the narrative just experienced. I cannot overstate how much Intergalactic Terrorist (New Dimension) was the right book at the right time for this reader and, to be fair, the sort of novel that is always the right book at the right time. If you are a fan of Douglas Adams, Ford Forkum or Jasper Fforde and, like me, you love the genre, head on out and pick this one up. Get to know Charlie in his moments of trial and moments of glory and let me know what you think of the most forgettable man in the universe.