Rocketship Patrol (Audible Audio Edition) J. I. Greco, Sara Mackie, James Greco Books
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"It's too soon to mutiny, isn't it?"
"It is only your first day."
In the sleepiest corner of a sleepy backwater of a solar system....
On a patrol rocketship well past her prime....
Under a shiftless, drunken letch of a commanding officer....
Rookie police officer Dana Loy is about to cross paths with a love-struck robot out for revenge, unscrupulous alien scavengers, an entire fleet of pirates, and a psychotically single-minded criminal mastermind.
And it's only her first day on the job....
Rocketship Patrol (Audible Audio Edition) J. I. Greco, Sara Mackie, James Greco Books
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Rocketship Patrol (Audible Audio Edition) J. I. Greco, Sara Mackie, James Greco Books Reviews
This is a fun story. This would be a good 1950s SciFi movie. It is well written, and easy to read.
Has plenty of twists and turns to really make it interesting. Right up to the end you are never sure who is really on which side.
Nice writing by Mr. Greco! Thank you for the wild space ride.
Kindly,
Grant
For starters I would have only given this 3 1/2 stars but it was closer to four than 3. Quick easy read not something you'll look back on a couple years from now and say oh that was a good book. It is far more likely that you will have forgotten about it altogether. One memorable line "I don't want to be on the lonely end of a firing squad." If I take that with me I guess that is something.
The blurb is right--it's old fashioned Space Opera, but a highly satirical version of it. That's what makes it hard to review. You groan at some parts of it (like a bad pun in other words) and enjoy others. Overall, I'd say read it, but don't shoot the messenger (me) if it puzzles you in spots like it did me.
I found the story to be a refreshing find amongst the lesser known works of the science fiction section. The author writes in a clean straight forward style very much Heinlein with the humor built in. Smooth references to current science fiction stories makes for a nice quick read. I look forward to more stories in this universe.
This is a comedic space opera that I purchased because the cover art reminded me of a bad sci-fi movie from the 50s
titled Robot Monster. Actually this book is much better than that and will have you laughing.
Yep. If you liked the adult cartoon show Futurama, this is the book for you. Plenty of slapstick and slightly off-color jokes, with an almost plausible story line. Has many of the same elements as the show - lovesick, criminally narcissistic robot, curvacious but clueless rookie cop, aquatic criminal mastermind controlling some other creatures body, explosions and collisions galore...
I had a great time reading this book. A good story wrapped itself around M.A.S.H. style humor that just didn't stop. Instead of doctors you had good cops, bad cops, idiot cops and pretend cops; good guys, bad guys, sort of good guys who could be bad with the right incentive and idiots; a good AI, bad robots and bad robots that could be good with the right incentive. And spaceships. And guns. Shake don't stir.
Junior Officer (Probationary) Dana Loy of the Drantini Unified Police and Emergency Service (DUPES) gets her first duty fresh out of the Academy. She is assigned to an aging patrol ship guarding, or, more accurately, largely ignoring a quiet sector of space. The only other officer on the ship is her incompetent commander, Lieutenant Detective Hackenthrush, although he is renting out an extra cabin to an alien civilian.
During her first day, they detect a drifting lifeboat at the edge of their patrol sector. In accordance with the well-know truism that good deeds do not go unpunished, they become unwittingly involved in a massive and dangerous police sting operation as a result.
The main character of this short book is the woman they rescue. Charlene Cortez is mostly human, although she has a whizz-bang cybernetic arm. I'd say more about her but it would be a spoiler, so I won't. Let's just say she has connections with the Galactic Authority Police.
And then there's Igon, an untrustworthy, lovesick robot.
All of the characters are fun, often simply silly. There is nothing profound or insightful about them. They may make you smile, but they won't make you think (to misquote Jethro Tull from Thick as a Brick - a great classic rock album, which has nothing to do with this book).
Rocketship Patrol is a pulp Sci-Fi novella that intentionally parodies the books from the 1950s and 1960s. At 31,000 words (about 100 paperback pages if it were available in paperback, which it's not) it is about a third the length of a regular novel. I picked up a copy during a recent free promotion and read it the same evening. I noted a few typos, but not many more than I normally find in traditionally published books.
I recommend this for pulp Sci-Fi fans interested in a short, fun read.
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