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The Dan Provocations #2
Third Universe
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Adults only. Not for the young or easily offended.
The second in the Dan Trilogy; the bawdy romp through time, space and credibility continues, although, again this can be read as a freestanding novel.
The story is now in separate threads. Kara is still trying to kill Tom, but there is a more sinister backdrop in that the parallel universes discovered at the End of Time in the ‘Legend of Dan’ now number three; there is the usual mad ruler of one universe who is determined to destroy it all, and it appears that the trophies awarded for prevention of the assassination attempt are the keys to preventing this disaster. Tom is trapped in a ‘people farm’ where he is expected to breed to produce children undamaged by the apocalypse in the universe, but (for reasons known only to himself) escapes and makes it through to the Third Universe to confront his nemesis.
Again, we have the tangled web of interconnections featuring the Magus, who is a beer swilling enigma, a psychopathic female android, Quadrillipods with their fascination with timepieces, the Skagans who are trying to rebuild their civilisation, the legendary Oilflig Phoist and many more.
Adults only. Not for the young or easily offended.
The second in the Dan Trilogy; the bawdy romp through time, space and credibility continues, although, again this can be read as a freestanding novel.
The story is now in separate threads. Kara is still trying to kill Tom, but there is a more sinister backdrop in that the parallel universes discovered at the End of Time in the ‘Legend of Dan’ now number three; there is the usual mad ruler of one universe who is determined to destroy it all, and it appears that the trophies awarded for prevention of the assassination attempt are the keys to preventing this disaster. Tom is trapped in a ‘people farm’ where he is expected to breed to produce children undamaged by the apocalypse in the universe, but (for reasons known only to himself) escapes and makes it through to the Third Universe to confront his nemesis.
Again, we have the tangled web of interconnections featuring the Magus, who is a beer swilling enigma, a psychopathic female android, Quadrillipods with their fascination with timepieces, the Skagans who are trying to rebuild their civilisation, the legendary Oilflig Phoist and many more.
388 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 28, 2005
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February 19, 2019
Another satirical, bawdy romp through the galaxy with Tom and his (un)trustworthy group. As always with this writer, the story is always entertaining and sometimes hilarious.
After a series of wild intergalactic adventures in space in the company of the heartless gynoid Kara Tay, during which he finds true love with his ideal female (if not human) Suzanne –Two Dan $mith (sic) suddenly wakes up and finds himself back where he was before he started - only worse off. He seems to have lost his muscles and karate skills, besides his memory and health.
Thirteen years have passed, he is existing in Scotland in an armed truce with the exasperated Freya, and has just been badly beaten in a mugging, only he remembers nothing about it.
All his memories of his wild adventures in space seem to be illusions, but then, he is suffering from memory problems.
Going up to London for a series of medical treatments, he catches a heart stopping glimpse of his true love Suzanne –and in pursuit of her, he ends up entering the portal to another universe…
In the Earth where a prolonged World War II has led to nuclear devastation and a UK terrorised by the Mob, Dan’s adventures start again. Once more the universe is under threat from the abominable Oilflig Phoist – not to mention a psychopathic ‘Colossus’ type of all powerful machine, and once more, it is up to Dan to save it.
Only he would rather not, but that is besides the point.
Through a breeding farm called ‘Paradise Towers’ and participating in a violent uprising staged by its seemingly equivalent of untouchables, escape in an aircraft piloted by a driver whose only experience on flying has been on videos, and a disturbing visit to Atlantis, through his own death, and a brief return home to the widowed Freya, reunion with the gifted but less than heroic Magus, through an unsatisfactory reunion with Suzanne and through pursuit of the three stars that alone can save the universes, Tom’s adventures make for many shudders and laughs.
One vivid episode follows another, and there are many of the tropes solemnly expounded in science fiction receive a satirical treatment here.
Favourite quotes:
‘By the way, your dinner is in the yeti.’
‘He forced the Magus against the wall. “Prepare to die, worm.”
The little man choked and went limp.
“Prepare to die?” Tom taunted. “Where the foist did you get that one from?
W******! Come and pick on someone who isn’t impressed with your clichés.”
‘‘Whoops, sorry, moon,” said Tom. “Let’s hope that it’s still devoid of intelligent life.”
“They do say that it is now a penal colony for unscrupulous estate agents and insurance salesmen,” put in Suzanne.
“That’s all right then,” concluded Tom.’
After a series of wild intergalactic adventures in space in the company of the heartless gynoid Kara Tay, during which he finds true love with his ideal female (if not human) Suzanne –Two Dan $mith (sic) suddenly wakes up and finds himself back where he was before he started - only worse off. He seems to have lost his muscles and karate skills, besides his memory and health.
Thirteen years have passed, he is existing in Scotland in an armed truce with the exasperated Freya, and has just been badly beaten in a mugging, only he remembers nothing about it.
All his memories of his wild adventures in space seem to be illusions, but then, he is suffering from memory problems.
Going up to London for a series of medical treatments, he catches a heart stopping glimpse of his true love Suzanne –and in pursuit of her, he ends up entering the portal to another universe…
In the Earth where a prolonged World War II has led to nuclear devastation and a UK terrorised by the Mob, Dan’s adventures start again. Once more the universe is under threat from the abominable Oilflig Phoist – not to mention a psychopathic ‘Colossus’ type of all powerful machine, and once more, it is up to Dan to save it.
Only he would rather not, but that is besides the point.
Through a breeding farm called ‘Paradise Towers’ and participating in a violent uprising staged by its seemingly equivalent of untouchables, escape in an aircraft piloted by a driver whose only experience on flying has been on videos, and a disturbing visit to Atlantis, through his own death, and a brief return home to the widowed Freya, reunion with the gifted but less than heroic Magus, through an unsatisfactory reunion with Suzanne and through pursuit of the three stars that alone can save the universes, Tom’s adventures make for many shudders and laughs.
One vivid episode follows another, and there are many of the tropes solemnly expounded in science fiction receive a satirical treatment here.
Favourite quotes:
‘By the way, your dinner is in the yeti.’
‘He forced the Magus against the wall. “Prepare to die, worm.”
The little man choked and went limp.
“Prepare to die?” Tom taunted. “Where the foist did you get that one from?
W******! Come and pick on someone who isn’t impressed with your clichés.”
‘‘Whoops, sorry, moon,” said Tom. “Let’s hope that it’s still devoid of intelligent life.”
“They do say that it is now a penal colony for unscrupulous estate agents and insurance salesmen,” put in Suzanne.
“That’s all right then,” concluded Tom.’
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