Legal Daisy Spacing: The Build-A Planet Manual of Official World Improvements

by Chris Winn

pp. 10 123.Stamped on fep and bep

Genres: Science Fiction, Humor

123 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1985

Reviews

[Ryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Warhammer 40k wishes it could ooze this menace.

[Dave Peticolas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Heavy-handed eco-satire. The same joke gets old after awhile.

[Jordan West · Rating 4 out of 5]

Imagine an entity that's equal parts the Imperium of Man, the bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake from Brazil, and the Cinco Corporation; now imagine that it has the power to potentially control every aspect of physical existence and is currently embarked on a universal crusade in service of the most sterile and stultifyingly provincial concept of 'Order' imaginable and you have this amusingly ominous little tome. Very much a part of the grand british traditions of over the top satire and exercises in pure whimsy that end up being deadly serious in spite of themselves, and probably as close as we'll get to Douglas Adams' WH40K.

[Nor'dzin Pamo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sorry - this book is just too weird for me. I get the point the author is trying to make, but it is not an interesting read, and certainly not ‘hilarious’ as the blurb says. I like the illustrations, and the inclusion of a bookmark gauge - so 2* for that.

[William · Rating 2 out of 5]

doofy, recalls B. Kliban type stuff to me but not as funny tbh

[W · Rating 5 out of 5]

a funny and horrifying short story about "what if the HOA took over the galaxy?"

[Allison · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is an imaginative and humorous exploration of an OCD way of grooming a planet. It is written as a guidebook listing bureaucratic rules to follow in order to maintain a planet. Advice includes doing such things as filling in valleys and gorges so as to have a perfect level surface. Each page has an illustration of different technology for taking care of pesky problems like the unruly growth of deciduous trees. Finding copies of this book is not easy as it seems to be out of print.

[Chris · Rating 2 out of 5]

Brief and silly, reads like a discarded section of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.