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Hell Ship (2011)

by Philip Palmer(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1841499447 (ISBN13: 9781841499444)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Orbit

review 1: This book was amongst the worst books I have ever read. While, I'm not opposed to gratuitous violence or swearing, there is a practical limit to what is acceptable, and this book exceeds it, by a lot. Much of the dialog between characters revolved around disgusting, vulgar insults that were so vile, I nearly stopped reading, but I kept hoping that once the characters became 'friends' it would stop. Well, it didn't stop, the vulgarity continues unabated throughout the entire novel. I also kept hoping that the author would reveal the background of the aliens that run the ship, and why they were exterminating every universe they could find, but he didn't. Lastly the ending was a severe let down, nothing was revealed, no explanations, nada.
review 2: Imagine H... moreoward Stern and Quentin Tarantino donning star wars costumes and co-writing a science fiction novel. The reader (IMO the victimized reader) is subjected to a concurrent diatribe of profanity (Stern) while being doused with buckets of viscera (Tarantino). It's cool to shock, and people who are numb to this should consider reading 'The Breeds of Man', by F M Busby. This is another one-star SF novel because it contains scenes that portray pedophile behavior as acceptable. If that shocks you, and hopefully it still shocks everyone, then consider that it should be equally unacceptable to use the F word or equivalent, oh, 10 times a page, and over-the-top gratuitous violence with roughly the same degree of purpose as a snuff film. On a positive note, there was a nice attempt by the author to use 'deep time' and a sense of epic sweep that makes science fiction a great genre, but ultimately it didn't go anywhere. A much better alternative to this novel are the works of Greg Bear, and many others. less

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