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A Game Of Battleships (2013)

by Toby Frost(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1905802773 (ISBN13: 9781905802777)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Myrmidon Books

series

Chronicles of Isambard Smith

review 1: A fun sci fi satire. Book 4 of the very funny series featuring the very British Captain Isambard Smith and his plucky crew on the space ship John Pym. Captain Smith is a bit dim when it comes to dealing with the women crew members, one who happens to be his lady love, but he is very gung ho and brave. Especially when he drinks his tea, for tea gives him his needed moral fibre. Tea is what makes the British Space Empire strong. Along with lots of tea breaks there's a plethora of goofball aliens. This is where Toby Frost has great fun coming up with weird and funny aliens. Not just the bad guy giant Lemming men, or the Ghast ( Giant Ants ) or the idiotic and fanatical Edenites who look like the outer space version of the KKK with their white robes and pointy ( dunce like?) h... moreats. Not everyone's cup of tea, but I love it.
review 2: Weirdness abounds in this latest venture into the realms of the British Space Empire and beyond (sometimes way beyond, courtesy of a strange and portentous mirror). A Game of Battleships is another gripping foray into the adventures of Space Captain Smith and his unlikely crewmates, wryly amusing and filled to the brim with tea and stiff upper lip. I thought it wasn't quite up there with its predecessors, perhaps that's simply because I've become acquainted and acclimatised to this eccentric world, but having said that said it remained a spiffing read. Good show, old boy. less

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