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Meteor Mags: Omnibus Edition
On the asteroid mining frontier of the near future, a hell-raising space pirate and her indestructible calico cat rage against the forces of law and order, “liberating” cargo and racking up a massive body count—until they come face-to-face with an alien invasion!
Join Meteor Mags and her criminal crew, the hard-rocking Psycho 78s, in fifteen tales of interplanetary piracy and total destruction. Run for your life in the tornado that wipes out Ceres! Thrill to the savage mating rituals practiced by the evil space lizards! Learn how to smuggle cigarettes and shoot pool with the solar system's number one dancer! Witness the unearthly energies of the machine that transforms Patches the cat, and merge your mind with a telepathic space kraken!
From rescuing a pirate radio DJ in a hail of bullets to dancing naked with a tribe of Russian space monkeys, Mags and her outlaw friends rock the Belt. But how long can they survive when everyone on Earth wants them dead?
Get ready for asteroids, anarchy, and excessive ammunition, because Meteor Mags and Patches are back—bigger, badder, and louder than ever!
Join Meteor Mags and her criminal crew, the hard-rocking Psycho 78s, in fifteen tales of interplanetary piracy and total destruction. Run for your life in the tornado that wipes out Ceres! Thrill to the savage mating rituals practiced by the evil space lizards! Learn how to smuggle cigarettes and shoot pool with the solar system's number one dancer! Witness the unearthly energies of the machine that transforms Patches the cat, and merge your mind with a telepathic space kraken!
From rescuing a pirate radio DJ in a hail of bullets to dancing naked with a tribe of Russian space monkeys, Mags and her outlaw friends rock the Belt. But how long can they survive when everyone on Earth wants them dead?
Get ready for asteroids, anarchy, and excessive ammunition, because Meteor Mags and Patches are back—bigger, badder, and louder than ever!
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Published May 29, 2017
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Matthew Howard
44 books6 followersMatthew Howard is the pen name of a significant number of atoms which organized themselves to produce a biochemical activity so complex and so advanced that the resultant organism is expected to continue its self-awareness for at least as long as it takes to finish two more cups of coffee.
Matthew consists primarily of electrons and the nuclei they orbit, but he remains under constant bombardment by photons of varying frequencies. Millions of microorganisms colonize him every second of the day, even when he is sleeping.
His hobbies include traveling through time at the rate of one second per second, looking at cats on the Internet, and metabolizing liquid carbohydrates. He has never merged with a symbiote, nor been infested by a xenomorph, nor been overtaken by an artificial intelligence in the service of any dystopic overlord.
At least, not yet.
Matthew consists primarily of electrons and the nuclei they orbit, but he remains under constant bombardment by photons of varying frequencies. Millions of microorganisms colonize him every second of the day, even when he is sleeping.
His hobbies include traveling through time at the rate of one second per second, looking at cats on the Internet, and metabolizing liquid carbohydrates. He has never merged with a symbiote, nor been infested by a xenomorph, nor been overtaken by an artificial intelligence in the service of any dystopic overlord.
At least, not yet.
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March 29, 2019
While this compilation comprises the initial entries in the Meteor Mags series, it's not my first exposure to the character. I actually read the later book - Meteor Mags and the Battle for Vesta 4 - first. I would recommend against this because this first collection really does a great job of establishing the fictional universe and the characters. (I didn't pick up a lot of the backstory and setting details in the Vesta 4 book).
This is another violent feel-good space romp. I particularly appreciated the backstory that was woven throughout the book! While some of the transitions were a bit abrupt, I liked the way episodes from Mags and Patches' pasts were conveyed in bits.
Mags, herself, is a fascinating character. There is much to love and fear about her! Despite learning a lot about her past and her ancestors, there are some major mysteries yet to be solved - she remains an enigma. In many ways, that's a very good thing. One element (that is largely incidental to the plot) that I wish had been explored a bit further was Mags's size. While this doesn't hold her back in the least from being her true self, I did find it to be a bit unrealistic (I realise I'm saying that about a tailed near-immortal) - there some elements that are a bit more of a struggle in a larger body (chafing, one's body getting in the way of itself, etc) that I think would have made Mags more relatable. (That's setting aside the cultural baggage that someone born when she was would likely have absorbed).
Still, this is an irreverent, rocking, series and I'm eager to read more!
This is another violent feel-good space romp. I particularly appreciated the backstory that was woven throughout the book! While some of the transitions were a bit abrupt, I liked the way episodes from Mags and Patches' pasts were conveyed in bits.
Mags, herself, is a fascinating character. There is much to love and fear about her! Despite learning a lot about her past and her ancestors, there are some major mysteries yet to be solved - she remains an enigma. In many ways, that's a very good thing. One element (that is largely incidental to the plot) that I wish had been explored a bit further was Mags's size. While this doesn't hold her back in the least from being her true self, I did find it to be a bit unrealistic (I realise I'm saying that about a tailed near-immortal) - there some elements that are a bit more of a struggle in a larger body (chafing, one's body getting in the way of itself, etc) that I think would have made Mags more relatable. (That's setting aside the cultural baggage that someone born when she was would likely have absorbed).
Still, this is an irreverent, rocking, series and I'm eager to read more!
June 16, 2021
Sometimes it is great to have a book on your “go-to” shelf to look through when your brain needs a spark. This is one of those books.
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