So, as I'd been gifted this, I immediately moved it to the top of my reading list.
I had no prior knowledge of where it originally came from other than "It's science fiction", from my present giver. Well worth anyone reading, especially as its not that long. Overall, I would say its a hilarious, entertaining, sex and violence packed scifi romp with more terrible puns and out of context similes than a Sperlupian's tips on half price booze night. Bodega is maybe a little one dimensional, which may be part of the point, but he's good enough to always be fun to read, and the eventual crew of the starship Disco Volante works well too.
It starts off a little rough because of this, as the first half is more or less a collection of seemingly unconnected stories about the protagonist - a grizzled, mega vaping, uncomplicated man named Bodega who solves most of his problems by blasting them away with his signature "lasgun" (the first 20 or so chapters were actually written to be read each week as a segment of the podcast, before he started working on the book properly).īut as Pyrion gets into the swing of things, the writing noticeably tightens up and something like an actual overarching plot emerges, and while not exactly the most complicated of plots, it comes in with some surprisingly solid scifi (given the nature of Bodegaverse also includes a species called "Dildonians"). And he does a great job, especially for a debut novel! Essentially, this is something kinda like a cross between Guardians of the Galaxy, Dirty Harry, and Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.įor those who don't know, this is book that started life as a joke on a podcast the author Edward Forsyth (aka Pyrion Flax) is a part of, where he attempts to parody all the hard-boiled, hyper masculine, sci-fi pulp action heroes.
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