What do you think?
Rate this book
Schlock Mercenary #14
Broken Wind
No ship, no job, and no prospects. But somebody did just pop a sapient balloon. Let's find out what's inside...
128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
24 people want to read
About the author
Howard Tayler
48 books169 followersHoward spent most of his happy childhood in Florida where he was on the swim team in grade school, and in a rock band in high school. He graduated in 1985 and moved to Utah to attend Brigham Young University.
After two years there, he served two years as a missionary for the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), after which he returned to school at BYU and decided to move to Provo permanently after graduating and getting married.
He currently works full-time as a cartoonist, writing, drawing, and coloring Schlock Mercenary , as well as doing comics for assorted corporate clients.
He is married to author and editor Sandra Tayler.
See the author page on Schlock Mercenary website
After two years there, he served two years as a missionary for the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), after which he returned to school at BYU and decided to move to Provo permanently after graduating and getting married.
He currently works full-time as a cartoonist, writing, drawing, and coloring Schlock Mercenary , as well as doing comics for assorted corporate clients.
He is married to author and editor Sandra Tayler.
See the author page on Schlock Mercenary website
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews
March 30, 2015
Apparently, all that a rags to riches story needs is a 12 million year old attention starved AI monitoring a gigantic tub of air and a crew accidentally burning down 3000 k of pristine forest. Good to know. I'm going to get right on it.
What was truly special about this sequence was the devotion to giving us real scale. If you can see a space station in the middle of a nova cloud, it's pretty, but does it really give you the information you need? Nah, we take it in stages and attempt to blow our mind repeatedly.
Of course, i'm reminded of things like ringworld, but this one did a slightly more fantastic job because it gave me PICTURES. Woo woo!
What was truly special about this sequence was the devotion to giving us real scale. If you can see a space station in the middle of a nova cloud, it's pretty, but does it really give you the information you need? Nah, we take it in stages and attempt to blow our mind repeatedly.
Of course, i'm reminded of things like ringworld, but this one did a slightly more fantastic job because it gave me PICTURES. Woo woo!
November 16, 2019
Schlock Mercenary is fantastic, and if you're not reading it daily you're missing out. However, I think it's even better when read in book form. Howard Taylor is consistently funny, but when a story stretches over 6-12 months, it can be easy to lose track of major plot points or characters that you haven't seen in a while. When you can read it all in a few hours, that's when the plot and worldbuilding really start to sing. This book is an excellent example of that, though perhaps not my favorite story arc. It devotes just a bit too much time to sense of wonder for me, but is otherwise excellent. Still extremely high quality stuff, and worth the read.
August 31, 2018
The sheer magnitude of the giant can alone was more than my tiny brain could comprehend. I want to go and explore it some more!
December 27, 2019
This volume starts a new story arc, in which Schlock and his friends encounter a sapient balloon who hires them to explore a large artifact. A very, _very_ large and old artifact.
February 3, 2020
Finally I understand the current story-line which I had read before. But now I know where the blimps come from and where Neo Synchronicity originated.
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews