Advantages: Strong characters, good jokes, exciting action Disadvantages: A few duff gags?
...that Victorian Britain somehow rules space through tea, moral fibre and good bearing, isn't laboured in this book, although Britain's antagonistic relationship with the French is referenced pretty frequently. The set-up comes over mostly through the character of Isambard Smith. Heroic, chivalrous, ruthless, gung-ho, quite stupid, incredibly lucky and English to the core, Smith is a fantastic comic creation who can always be counted on to say the ... ...highlight was his ranting about his school days while disintegrating Ghast troopers in one of the novel's climactic battles. He also has a strong line in catchphrases. 'I'll settle your hash' crops up several times like a public school Terminator, and a successful mission tends to lead to a line about 'tiffin'. There are also some knowing parodies of other works. Rick Dreckitt is a brilliant inverted parody of Blade Runner's Deckard - an android ...
Olly_Plimsoll 13.05.2009
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