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Humans are Weird #2
We Took A Vote
If you are looking for epic space battles, if you are looking for generals winning victory through genius tactics, if you are looking for berserker warriors carrying empires aloft on their swords, look elsewhere my friends. Here you will find laughter. Here a quartermaster must discover why the humans insist that the mass-produced broom, identical down to the molecule to every other broom on the base, is the "wrong" broom, and why and how they expect him to fix it. Here aliens learn the meaning of "enough C4". Here a medic meets the challenge of understanding why a human thinks it can survive on chocolate cake. Here Monty Python meets Star Trek.
- GenresScience FictionHumor
86 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 14, 2021
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Betty Adams
6 books13 followersBetty Adams lives in a particularly damp and remote corner of the Pacific Northwest and like a hobbit enjoys visitors so long as she knows them in advance and knows when they are coming. She was born sometime last century and will likely die sometime this century. She works winters on a small organic research farm when not writing and spends most of her time herding eccentric genius scientists (she is absolutely certain cats would be easier) with the help of her 4 year old Great Pyrenees mix. Summers she spends nomadically wandering the Pacific Northwest in search of material for her stories and a regular paycheck for a biology major (she is reasonably certain those are on the Endangered Species List). She has several works published in the National Park Internal Database which may or may not be classified documents.
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January 21, 2024
This review was first published on Kurt's Frontier.
Synopsis:
Humans are an oddity. A mantis-like alien named Third Cousin wonders why a mass-produced broom, identical down to the last molecule to every other broom on the base, is the “wrong” broom. Also, scabs form to protect a wound until it heals. Why do humans insist on picking at them? One of the Winged (known as hell bats to the humans) named Seventh Flap asks a human friend about the connection between frustration and punching a wall. Fifteenth Sister, a medic, tries to understand why a human thinks it can survive on chocolate cake.
Review:
There are no epic space battles with strange aliens here. Aliens are working with humans but can’t seem to figure them out. Betty Adams’s first book, Humans Are Weird, I Have the Data, left me in stitches. Humans Are Weird, We Took a Votewas also a fun book but had fewer laughs. While many of the short vignettes, especially toward the end, got a chuckle out of me, some left me scratching my head every bit as much as the aliens. Why did roosting hell bats (which roost like terrestrial bats, by the way) remind a human of the old song “Hot Cross Buns,” for instance? Some jokes lacked a clear punchline. Sometimes, the jokes’ timing seemed off.
On the whole, however, Humans Are Weird: We Took a Vote was fun to read. I would still recommend it to those who have read Humans Are Weird, I Have the Data.
Synopsis:
Humans are an oddity. A mantis-like alien named Third Cousin wonders why a mass-produced broom, identical down to the last molecule to every other broom on the base, is the “wrong” broom. Also, scabs form to protect a wound until it heals. Why do humans insist on picking at them? One of the Winged (known as hell bats to the humans) named Seventh Flap asks a human friend about the connection between frustration and punching a wall. Fifteenth Sister, a medic, tries to understand why a human thinks it can survive on chocolate cake.
Review:
There are no epic space battles with strange aliens here. Aliens are working with humans but can’t seem to figure them out. Betty Adams’s first book, Humans Are Weird, I Have the Data, left me in stitches. Humans Are Weird, We Took a Votewas also a fun book but had fewer laughs. While many of the short vignettes, especially toward the end, got a chuckle out of me, some left me scratching my head every bit as much as the aliens. Why did roosting hell bats (which roost like terrestrial bats, by the way) remind a human of the old song “Hot Cross Buns,” for instance? Some jokes lacked a clear punchline. Sometimes, the jokes’ timing seemed off.
On the whole, however, Humans Are Weird: We Took a Vote was fun to read. I would still recommend it to those who have read Humans Are Weird, I Have the Data.
January 8, 2026
Monty Python in Space, I Didn’t Expect to Laugh This Much
This isn’t a story about epic space battles or brilliant generals, and that’s exactly why it works. Instead, it leans fully into humor, chaos, and wonderfully human absurdity.
I loved watching baffled aliens try to understand why the wrong identical broom is a real problem, what “enough C4” actually means, and how a human believes chocolate cake counts as survival rations. It’s clever, lighthearted, and genuinely funny, a perfect blend of Star Trek logic and Monty Python madness.
If you want laughs, not laser wars, this one delivers.
This isn’t a story about epic space battles or brilliant generals, and that’s exactly why it works. Instead, it leans fully into humor, chaos, and wonderfully human absurdity.
I loved watching baffled aliens try to understand why the wrong identical broom is a real problem, what “enough C4” actually means, and how a human believes chocolate cake counts as survival rations. It’s clever, lighthearted, and genuinely funny, a perfect blend of Star Trek logic and Monty Python madness.
If you want laughs, not laser wars, this one delivers.
August 11, 2022
I, too, read these “Humans are weird” posts on Tumblr, so I thought that a whole book of stories like that would be great.
Great it wasn’t, but it was still a nice read.
Some of the stories ended a bit too abruptly for me, because I really would have liked to know what happened after something was explained from one extraterrestrial species to another, so those stories felt quite unfinished to me, but otherwise it was fine.
Great it wasn’t, but it was still a nice read.
Some of the stories ended a bit too abruptly for me, because I really would have liked to know what happened after something was explained from one extraterrestrial species to another, so those stories felt quite unfinished to me, but otherwise it was fine.
February 10, 2023
Vignettes & snapshots
We see ourselves most clearly when we see ourselves reflected in other eyes, even if those eyes are fictional. Betty Adams captures some oddities of human behavior, both general and individual in this series of vignettes, in an entertaining and often humorous way.
We see ourselves most clearly when we see ourselves reflected in other eyes, even if those eyes are fictional. Betty Adams captures some oddities of human behavior, both general and individual in this series of vignettes, in an entertaining and often humorous way.
January 8, 2023
LOL!
I chuckled through this whole book. One chapter was repeated from the previous volume - all others were whole new tales of the misadventures poor, sensible aliens suffer trying to understand Space Orc human ridiculousness. Too funny!
I chuckled through this whole book. One chapter was repeated from the previous volume - all others were whole new tales of the misadventures poor, sensible aliens suffer trying to understand Space Orc human ridiculousness. Too funny!
March 16, 2024
I love the Humans are Weird books. This was as good as it gets. Thanks for giving me a fun "getaway" for awhile!
May 11, 2025
Monty Python collides with Starfleet in this sharp, comedic romp through the cosmos. A hilarious triumph.
April 24, 2023
Entertaining short tales about Humans from the viewpoint of some aliens. Good. Worth reading!
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