Review: Hilarious and brilliant
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2014
"Encounter" by Dermot Davis is a fun science fiction story about two idiot aliens who are watching a particular human from their space station as their profession. When their retirement age is brought back by an ill-meaning boss they decide to have some fun and conduct an forbidden experiment with the human.Sharp, witty and playful this novel puts human beings into the research lab and let's them be taken care of by incompetent people. This is the stuff great satires are made of where a well chosen set up says a lot without having to be spelled out. Davis writes with great slapstick humour but also with clever irony, making this more than merely mindless fun.Eventually the two aliens need to enter Earth to correct their mistake and this leads to a new dimension of experiences and 'alienation'. This is another great novel by a talented and multi-facetted author. Every novel is different yet 'nails' the subject at hand.Five books in five weeks, I am a declared fan now.