A review by ruzgofdi
Help Fund my Robot Army!!! & Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects by John Joseph Adams

4.0

I think the title of the collection may skew a person's impressions of the types of stories that are found inside. I was expecting the tone of the book to be over all humorous. And while there are more than a few funny "projects" included, it ends up feeling nicely balanced by stories like Jake Kerr's "A Memorial to the Patriots" and Samuel Peralta's "Liberty: Seeking Support for a Writ of Habeas Corpus for a Non-Human Being".

I would say that most of the stories included are really good. I there were a couple that I didn't really care for. One didn't seem like it was trying to be a self contained thing so much as a possible add for another work by the author. And one hit my personal pet peeve of "gobblefunk"-ing around with words (something that is only made worse in short fiction where your audience may not have the chance to adapt to your invented gibberish).

Over all, I rather enjoyed the collection and was not disappointed.

(Full disclosure: As part of the Kickstarter for this project, I paid to be Tuckerized in Veronica Belmont's story. Weaponized house cats. That's a good idea, right? :})