Is it wrong to eat people?

by Dr Terry Pratchett

This is the story of a young boy, named after a licence plate, and his sister, named after a type of floor polish who battle an alien menace, the void of space, scary things in sewers and massive explosions, all while discussing the psychologically paradoxical nature of evil, the universe and everything else. They are aided in their quest by Bopi, a cyborg posing as the family pet, Madame Esmeralda- a small medium, a welsh self taught astronaut in a home made suit, a computer with a head-cold and a thermonuclear bomb who is afraid to die. Cameo appearances from the men in almost black, killer robots with faulty logic circuits, a horde of giant slavering monsters, cyborgs and succubi as well as countless sci-fi in jokes and references to keep the adults amused.

100 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 25, 2016

Reviews

[Marc · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bought this as a Kobo ebook, and i don't think this ever came out on print. My concerns for the quality might only apply to the Kobo ebook.

This might be an actual Terry Pratchett book. But if it is, someone took his manuscript and published it, without doing any kind of editing or checking. The publishing dates i found for this ebook are around and after he died, so this adds to my feeling someone found this script and published it without alteration.

The book is messy, chapters unnamed and added right where the previous one ended, even if it is halfway down a page. Spelling is sometimes wrong, as are some sentence structures.

The story itself is... Original. It has a certain style that makes it possible this is actually a Terry Pratchett story, or a decent copycat. It is a short read, but a hard one due to the bad quality of the text.

All things considered it is a half decent story wich probably had potential if it wasn't such a hard read.

[begemot · Rating 1 out of 5]

I read the first 4 pages of the story, and noticed numerous typos and dodgy grammar. I wasn’t sure if this was the problem with digitization, the platform I was reading it on, or if this was just a very early work of Pratchett’s that hadn’t undergone much editing.

Good thing I came here, because it made me realize that this actually has nothing to do with Terry Pratchett - whoever published this has used the famous author’s name to mislead readers into purchasing this, having added a prefix “Dr” to the name, I’m guessing to avoid legal issues (not sure if that would actually stand up if someone were to sue).

Anyway, I got this in a public library, so no money lost, but this is disgusting. The story itself wasn’t bad so far actually, so I don’t know why they couldn’t just publish it like a normal person.

[Steven · Rating 2 out of 5]

This shameless pastiche of various sci-fi movie plots reads like a totally unedited transcription of someone's stream of consciousness bedtime story, typos and all.