Will Save The Galaxy For Food
Apr. 10th, 2019 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lathanyWill Save The Galaxy For Food is Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's third book. If you think you recognise the name, you're correct that's the Zero Punctuation guy. (For those of you who don't, he's a video game reviewer and he produces his reviews in the form of about five minutes of video - fast talking, non-work safe and usually somewhat acidic and accurate.)
I read the previous two books before getting this and they were entertaining - with good ideas and good bits - but I didn't think quite worked overall. (Jam, in particular, seemed to be all about the punchline of where it came from - which is fine for a short story, but not a book.) I think this is better - still a way from perfect - but it feels more like a book.
The theme is space opera / sci fi and the mood is dark comedy. The central character is a starship pilot and he's in trouble. Yahtzee's protagonists are always in trouble. However, in this case, the protagonist has some fields of competence and I found it rather easier to empathise with him than his predecessors (I really struggled with the central character in Jam who came across as a complete idiot). The plot, without giving too much away, is that he is piloting some passengers around the galaxy, whilst revealing the history of piloting and wars (changed since teleportation arrived), dealing with his passengers, and generally trying to stay alive.
I would - very cautiously - recommend it to anyone who has played space video games such as Elite.
I read the previous two books before getting this and they were entertaining - with good ideas and good bits - but I didn't think quite worked overall. (Jam, in particular, seemed to be all about the punchline of where it came from - which is fine for a short story, but not a book.) I think this is better - still a way from perfect - but it feels more like a book.
The theme is space opera / sci fi and the mood is dark comedy. The central character is a starship pilot and he's in trouble. Yahtzee's protagonists are always in trouble. However, in this case, the protagonist has some fields of competence and I found it rather easier to empathise with him than his predecessors (I really struggled with the central character in Jam who came across as a complete idiot). The plot, without giving too much away, is that he is piloting some passengers around the galaxy, whilst revealing the history of piloting and wars (changed since teleportation arrived), dealing with his passengers, and generally trying to stay alive.
I would - very cautiously - recommend it to anyone who has played space video games such as Elite.
