The Cosmic Space Turkey, by Laura Ruth Loomis, NOV 2020 LTER
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Disclosure: An electronic copy of this book was provided in exchange for review by publishers Thinkling Books, via Library Thing.
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Loomis shows off a fine sense of the ridiculous here in a space opera send-up featuring a technological Jonah who ends up sentenced to a year in the Galactic Universal Peacemongering Paradigm Emergent Action Spacefleet (GUPPEAS) after her floatcar accidentally pokes a rather large hole in City Hall.
Inexplicably named captain of a tatterdemalion ship with a disgruntled crew and a pouting computer, Janet Delane does her best to carry out her first mission – the rescue of an Earth scientist being held prisoner on Pluto.
The plot, which is basically superfluous, has the crew gallivanting about trying to discover a closely-held Plutonian secret while occasionally remembering the captured scientist. Oh, and there’s coffee, chocolate, and a hunky diplomat as a love-interest.
Don’t sweat the small stuff – just go along for the wacky, FTL-paced action that borrows largely from opera bouffe (or perhaps space-opera bouffe). If there’s a quibble, it’s that Loomis didn’t take just a few minutes longer to play with the Spacefleet’s full name in ordered to come up with something that would acronymize to GUPPIES. (Come on, -- Space Guppies? How could you resist?)
This looks like the beginning of a series, and if it is, I’d like to sign up. What minor law do I have to break to get gang-pressed into GUPPEAS?
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Loomis shows off a fine sense of the ridiculous here in a space opera send-up featuring a technological Jonah who ends up sentenced to a year in the Galactic Universal Peacemongering Paradigm Emergent Action Spacefleet (GUPPEAS) after her floatcar accidentally pokes a rather large hole in City Hall.
Inexplicably named captain of a tatterdemalion ship with a disgruntled crew and a pouting computer, Janet Delane does her best to carry out her first mission – the rescue of an Earth scientist being held prisoner on Pluto.
The plot, which is basically superfluous, has the crew gallivanting about trying to discover a closely-held Plutonian secret while occasionally remembering the captured scientist. Oh, and there’s coffee, chocolate, and a hunky diplomat as a love-interest.
Don’t sweat the small stuff – just go along for the wacky, FTL-paced action that borrows largely from opera bouffe (or perhaps space-opera bouffe). If there’s a quibble, it’s that Loomis didn’t take just a few minutes longer to play with the Spacefleet’s full name in ordered to come up with something that would acronymize to GUPPIES. (Come on, -- Space Guppies? How could you resist?)
This looks like the beginning of a series, and if it is, I’d like to sign up. What minor law do I have to break to get gang-pressed into GUPPEAS?
