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jaceyToby Frost: Space Captain Smith
I guess this was meant to be funny, but the humour never quite hit the spot for me, seeming more on the level of schoolboy gags, including fart jokes and does-my-bum-look-big-in-this merry quips. I wouldn't go searching out any more Toby Frost books though I didn't actually end up throwing this against the wall and it was a pleasant enough read in small doses.
Gung-ho Isambard Smith is a naïve, incompetent junior space captain working for the British Space Empire and sporting a stiff upper lip covered by a waxed moustache. When he's given command of the rustbucket ship the John Pym and told to rescue hippie-type herbalist Rhianna Mitchell from New Francisco he doesn't realise he's been set up to be bait in a trap. Fighting (not altogether incompetently) against void sharks, the evil, insectoid Ghasts and a psychopathic space captain who is a dangerous religious fanatic. His crew consists of Carveth, a runaway sex-slave turned pilot (just as soon as she's finished reading the manual), and the Suruk, a head-collecting alien who's come along for the ride and a chance to claim a few grisly trophies.
I guess this was meant to be funny, but the humour never quite hit the spot for me, seeming more on the level of schoolboy gags, including fart jokes and does-my-bum-look-big-in-this merry quips. I wouldn't go searching out any more Toby Frost books though I didn't actually end up throwing this against the wall and it was a pleasant enough read in small doses.
Gung-ho Isambard Smith is a naïve, incompetent junior space captain working for the British Space Empire and sporting a stiff upper lip covered by a waxed moustache. When he's given command of the rustbucket ship the John Pym and told to rescue hippie-type herbalist Rhianna Mitchell from New Francisco he doesn't realise he's been set up to be bait in a trap. Fighting (not altogether incompetently) against void sharks, the evil, insectoid Ghasts and a psychopathic space captain who is a dangerous religious fanatic. His crew consists of Carveth, a runaway sex-slave turned pilot (just as soon as she's finished reading the manual), and the Suruk, a head-collecting alien who's come along for the ride and a chance to claim a few grisly trophies.
