Review: Well crafted, sharp and cleaver! A very enjoyable read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2014
In the future, door-to-door sales has been outlawed, but that doesn't stop desperate salesmen from falling to those depths.Telepathic Vacuum Cleaner Salesperson Police Officers enforce the laws for their market segment. They are an elite force of officers trained to fight sales crimes. Every day, they patrol neighborhood floors armed with security strength vacuums, looking for signs of sales abuse and bad consumer decisions. And they do what they do without any desire for recognition. To prove that, they give up their names when they become officers. Then again, they don't have a choice. It is department policy.One Telepathic Vacuum Cleaner Salesperson Policeman decides he wants his name back, but he needs to do more than just complain to his best friend about it. He has been doing that for a while, and it hasn't worked so far. He needs influence.When he starts on the trail of one of the most wanted criminals in his department, he might just get his wish. He only has to catch her, but that is not an easy task. And the closer he gets, the more he finds out just how wanted she is.This humorous science fiction novel gets a gold star for imagination and for a very entertaining, whimsical book with loads of allegory . It's snarky and sarcastic and for some reason it I get the feeling the author is a fan of Phillip Dick.I loved the door-to-door salesperson being banned. I had to giggle over that and then of the Spouse service that would create the perfect mate for you based on you specifications. Was Nulla real or a genuine real life human being? Well, our no named policeman can't believe his luck when he meets her and starts to fall in love with her. But, lo and behold it turns out the lady is a criminal. What to do? Well, he is a policeman so he feels he must do his duty and well, he might, just might be able to make a name for himself.This is a well crafted novel, obviously well thought out and plotted, sharp and clever and a very enjoyable read. I have give this author credit for creating something outside the box and finding a way to address issues in society in an overblown way that make it all seem so silly when you look at it like that. If you have a sense of humor you should check this one out, even if you don't usually read science fiction because really it's only technically SF. It's set in the future and all the consequences of our past decisions have taken a toll on the society of the future.This one is a five star rating.