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The Doomsday Machine: A space opera comedy drama
The Orville meets Red Dwarf and has afternoon tea with Rick and Morty on Babylon 5’s Brown Level!
In the first book of this science fiction comedy space opera series, garbage freighter Space Scrap 17 is selected for a top- secret mission. Captain Daisy Daryl and XO Michigan Jones must forget their failed romance and work together to save their ship.
But the Doomsday Machine has other ideas, most of them painful...
In the first book of this science fiction comedy space opera series, garbage freighter Space Scrap 17 is selected for a top- secret mission. Captain Daisy Daryl and XO Michigan Jones must forget their failed romance and work together to save their ship.
But the Doomsday Machine has other ideas, most of them painful...
284 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 19, 2021
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April 15, 2021
My partner got this on kindle and I also read it.
We both LOVED it!
The humour (mostly english humour I think) is superb.
The references are brilliant and the story is a great and well told from beginning to end.
Can’t wait for the next stories.
We both LOVED it!
The humour (mostly english humour I think) is superb.
The references are brilliant and the story is a great and well told from beginning to end.
Can’t wait for the next stories.
May 20, 2021
Epic space opera comedy, on a grand scale.
A cosmic potpourri that combines the humor of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, with some of the best, or the worst, of 'doc' E. E. Smith's grand space opera, with some twentieth century mysticism and bit of modern quantum theory and cosmology. Most of the humor is obvious and direct, however, there are some witty jests sprinkled across the dialogue for alert readers to enjoy. The main protagonists manage to blunder their way against frightening odds and save themselves and the Galaxy from the proverbial as well as the literal excrement which is directed at them in a cosmic, comical, space battle that involves stressed out computers, spaghetti-like space and wormholes, as well as some delightfully unlikely aliens. The theme is cosmically epic and reduces the entirety of existence to an apparently pointless game of chess played by two titans living in a mythical "hypospace" dimension. Some of the character's use elements of classical Greek philosophy to justify their lives, while others are simply bizarrely eccentric. Even theology is reduced to entertaining satire as the author also takes a swipe at the media and, of course, social media. For many readers this will be a delightful book which is the first in series. However, it will not appeal to readers who do not relish sensitive or weighty concepts handled with blatant satire.
A cosmic potpourri that combines the humor of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, with some of the best, or the worst, of 'doc' E. E. Smith's grand space opera, with some twentieth century mysticism and bit of modern quantum theory and cosmology. Most of the humor is obvious and direct, however, there are some witty jests sprinkled across the dialogue for alert readers to enjoy. The main protagonists manage to blunder their way against frightening odds and save themselves and the Galaxy from the proverbial as well as the literal excrement which is directed at them in a cosmic, comical, space battle that involves stressed out computers, spaghetti-like space and wormholes, as well as some delightfully unlikely aliens. The theme is cosmically epic and reduces the entirety of existence to an apparently pointless game of chess played by two titans living in a mythical "hypospace" dimension. Some of the character's use elements of classical Greek philosophy to justify their lives, while others are simply bizarrely eccentric. Even theology is reduced to entertaining satire as the author also takes a swipe at the media and, of course, social media. For many readers this will be a delightful book which is the first in series. However, it will not appeal to readers who do not relish sensitive or weighty concepts handled with blatant satire.
May 8, 2021
Space Scrap 17 has a new Captain and XO: Daisy Daryl and Michigan Jones, ex-lovers, and now unwillingly reunited co-workers. Sent on a dangerous mission (one fully out of their normal day to day operations) that will determine the fate of the galaxy, the two must learn to work together and fast before the Doomsday Machine can end their lives prematurely.
While the premise might seem more of a doom and gloom scenario of Sci-Fi, there is a wealth of humor, puns and jokes in this book that run the gamut from snarky to slapstick. There is certainly a plot here, and the story was good. I was not overly enthralled with the story, but I was entertained and sometimes that is all that matters.
While the premise might seem more of a doom and gloom scenario of Sci-Fi, there is a wealth of humor, puns and jokes in this book that run the gamut from snarky to slapstick. There is certainly a plot here, and the story was good. I was not overly enthralled with the story, but I was entertained and sometimes that is all that matters.
May 13, 2021
"A uniquely tongue-in-cheek space adventure. Like Tom Robbins, Drake is not only a magnificent storyteller, but also masterful with his language, humor, and snark. The ridiculous and pseudo-surreal nature of certain story details also summons visions of Douglas Adams, with multilayered jokes and callback humor, as well as witty wordplay on nearly every page. This kaleidoscopic comedy is a hilarious delight, brimming with sass, creativity, and jaw-dropping bursts of action." Self-Publishing Review, ★★★★
January 7, 2022
Entertaining space comedy, as an incompetent crew led by Captain Daisy Daryl and XO Michigan Jones, is tasked with a secret mission. Can they stop bickering and stand up and stop the doomsday machine?
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