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Space Captain Smith by Toby Frost
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Space Captain Smith (original 2008; edition 2008)

by Toby Frost

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In the 25nd Century the British Space Empire faces the gathering menace of the evil ant-soldiers of the Ghast Empire hive, hell-bent on galactic domination and the extermination of all humanoid life. Isambard Smith is the square-jawed, courageous and somewhat asinine new commander of the clapped out and battle damaged light freighter John Pym, destined to take on the alien threat because nobody else is available. Together with his bold crew a skull collecting alien lunatic, an android pilot who is actually a fugitive sex toy and a hamster called Gerald he must collect new-age herbalist Rhianna Mitchell from the laid back New Francisco orbiter and bring her back to safety in the Empire. Straightforward enough except the Ghasts want her too. If he is to get back to Blighty alive, Smith must defeat void sharks, a universe-weary android assassin and John Gilead, psychopathic naval officer from the fanatically religious Republic of New Eden before facing his greatest enemy: a ruthless alien warlord with a very large behind...

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Member:Violetthedwarf
Title:Space Captain Smith
Authors:Toby Frost
Info:Myrmidon Books Ltd (2008), Paperback, 320 pages
Collections:pastiche, Your library
Rating:****
Tags:fantasy, funny, historical, steampunk

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Space Captain Smith by Toby Frost (2008)

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After a slow start this book picks up and rolls right along. I'm fairly sure I missed a number of puns along the way, but got most of the rest of them. Toby Frost's main character Captain Isambard Smith isn't the brightest penny in the pile, but he's up beat, forthright and loyal to the British Empire. Suruk, Smith's M'Lak friend and companion, is refreshing in his candor and desire for heads to decorate his mantle and Polly Corveth is cool too.

I enjoyed this book and look forward to reading more by Mr. Frost. ( )
  fuzzipueo | Apr 24, 2022 |
Tries to hard to be funny. I believe it would work better as a short story rather then a novel ( )
  Eclipse777 | Jun 27, 2021 |
I was looking forward to reading this after reading the blurb and a few reviews. It's jolly good fun and exciting stuff, now for a cup of tea. ( )
  sundowneruk | Feb 2, 2016 |
A rollicking, humorous (albeit juvenile) space adventure! First in a series. ( )
  BooksOn23rd | Nov 25, 2015 |
Just because you have a way with a gag it doesn't mean that you're excused from the requirement to deliver a bit of character development with your farce. Part of the problem is that I suspect that this story would work better as a graphic novel, where there would be an illustrated component to portray the emotional element that Frost is not really providing. Not to totally slam the walnut with a hammer, I suspect that another issue here is that I'm just a little too old for this sort of thing. Let's put it this way; I used to like Ron Goulart (another purveyor of satirical SF) back in the Seventies, but a few years ago I tried to reread him with no success. ( )
  Shrike58 | Jul 28, 2015 |
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The author does know his Science Fiction, and it's fun to play spot-the-reference as you read along. The plot (and there is a plot for the humour to hang of, a pleasant surprise) moves briskly along and the action spices things up nicely.
 

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Fiction. Science Fiction. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:

In the 25nd Century the British Space Empire faces the gathering menace of the evil ant-soldiers of the Ghast Empire hive, hell-bent on galactic domination and the extermination of all humanoid life. Isambard Smith is the square-jawed, courageous and somewhat asinine new commander of the clapped out and battle damaged light freighter John Pym, destined to take on the alien threat because nobody else is available. Together with his bold crew a skull collecting alien lunatic, an android pilot who is actually a fugitive sex toy and a hamster called Gerald he must collect new-age herbalist Rhianna Mitchell from the laid back New Francisco orbiter and bring her back to safety in the Empire. Straightforward enough except the Ghasts want her too. If he is to get back to Blighty alive, Smith must defeat void sharks, a universe-weary android assassin and John Gilead, psychopathic naval officer from the fanatically religious Republic of New Eden before facing his greatest enemy: a ruthless alien warlord with a very large behind...

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