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Space Captain Smith - book review
This was the first library book I borrowed on my Sony ebook reader. (and I'm waiting to see if Amazon censor that line from my book review...)
Set in a future where the British Empire rules a good chunk of the stars, the book gives us an Empire with 1970's entertainment, pseudo-Victorian morality for the Empire and technology that feels like a second-hand car.
Captain Smith and his motley crew face the evil Ghasts and overcome them by plenty of derring do and stiff upper lips. There's not much in the way of character development.
You'll need to have seen things like Bladerunner and War of the Worlds to get all the jokes.
There were some annoying point of view shifts in mid-paragraph - I suspect that's partly due to this being the writer's first book.
I found the book entertaining enough to read to the end, but not interesting enough to want to read the next one in the series.
Set in a future where the British Empire rules a good chunk of the stars, the book gives us an Empire with 1970's entertainment, pseudo-Victorian morality for the Empire and technology that feels like a second-hand car.
Captain Smith and his motley crew face the evil Ghasts and overcome them by plenty of derring do and stiff upper lips. There's not much in the way of character development.
You'll need to have seen things like Bladerunner and War of the Worlds to get all the jokes.
There were some annoying point of view shifts in mid-paragraph - I suspect that's partly due to this being the writer's first book.
I found the book entertaining enough to read to the end, but not interesting enough to want to read the next one in the series.