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A review by koboldskind
Space Captain Smith by Toby Frost
4.0
Victorian Englishmen IN SPACE! Captain Smith is everything a Victorian adventurer hero should be: stoic, heroic, somewhat repressed and while not xenophobe as such he is utterly certain that anyone who is not British is inferior to everyone who is. To his credit, that doesn't stop him from being best friends with a proud warrior alien. Together with their not at all repressed android pilot, they rescue the damsel causing distress and take on insectoid alien empires and religious fanatics.
If that doesn't make it clear enough, this is pulp science fiction of the highest order. Fortunately, that genre is my guilty pleasure, and I enjoyed the book a lot. References to everything from Blade Runner to The Matrix and a general, generous dash of humor make it even better. Looking forward to the next book already.
If that doesn't make it clear enough, this is pulp science fiction of the highest order. Fortunately, that genre is my guilty pleasure, and I enjoyed the book a lot. References to everything from Blade Runner to The Matrix and a general, generous dash of humor make it even better. Looking forward to the next book already.