Review: Fun, fast, glorious read - more please
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 11, 2013
I'm amazed at the variety of Hank Quense's writing, his time into the realms of comedy and science-fiction.This light-hearted novel filled my heart with joy being a sci-fi fan with (yes, I have to admit it) a model of R2D2 sitting along side me by my desk, and a light saber at the top of my closet hidden away from the thieving hands of my children..... and husband.The story is fast paced with a plenitude of star-flung characters including super computers, androids, gun-ho macho killers, to "lost in space" characters like Dot 38. All the right ingredients for a fun science fiction novel. Yet where many of these type of novels go wrong in being banal or just copies of Star Wars stories, Quense breathes in life with great characters you want to read about, and a writing style than moves you along each paragraph after another. The story has elements of many sci-fi classics, from HAL (Space Odysee) to Star Wars androids, but very much of its own flavour. Quense made me laugh a few times in this book, and for this I have to rate it highly since I just enjoyed the book from the beginning to the end.