And I thought that clamping your tyres was a ridiculous punishment. Steve Greenjeans there is about to have his rocket ship buzz-sawed for parking in a no-solid-chemical-booster zone.
This review makes it sound like a very pedestrian novel. And he looks like a very pedestrian spaceman.
Battle on Venus is another forgettable Ace Double entry. I didn’t have high hopes for it, just a fun adventure yarn of Venusian conflict, but it still managed to fall short. It’s a very standard, very predictable, very by-the-numbers novel. At times it’s so over the top as to be comic without managing to be funny or engaging. I don’t have much more to say about the book because there’s not a whole lot there, and what is there is pretty slapdash.
July 26th, 2016 at 12:55 pm
“Space frisbee is trickier than it looks!”
July 26th, 2016 at 1:08 pm
Twelve-year-old me just said “SOLD!”
July 26th, 2016 at 1:09 pm
SPOILERS FOR PROMETHEUS!
July 26th, 2016 at 1:10 pm
And I thought that clamping your tyres was a ridiculous punishment. Steve Greenjeans there is about to have his rocket ship buzz-sawed for parking in a no-solid-chemical-booster zone.
July 26th, 2016 at 1:19 pm
Mariner 2 flew past Venus on 14th of December 1962 measuring its surface temperature at 511K to 590K so this book was obsolete on publication.
July 26th, 2016 at 1:21 pm
He never saw that coming.
July 26th, 2016 at 1:26 pm
This review makes it sound like a very pedestrian novel. And he looks like a very pedestrian spaceman.
Battle on Venus is another forgettable Ace Double entry. I didn’t have high hopes for it, just a fun adventure yarn of Venusian conflict, but it still managed to fall short. It’s a very standard, very predictable, very by-the-numbers novel. At times it’s so over the top as to be comic without managing to be funny or engaging. I don’t have much more to say about the book because there’s not a whole lot there, and what is there is pretty slapdash.
July 26th, 2016 at 2:31 pm
“Engineer Vorg, I told you to design a flying saucer, not a rolling saucer!”
July 26th, 2016 at 2:32 pm
Looks like Mars is lording it over Venus in this photo.
July 26th, 2016 at 3:06 pm
Venus got BIG pizza.
July 26th, 2016 at 3:09 pm
@ Ray P.: I think they also knew that Venus wasn’t a star by then. At least, I hope so.
July 26th, 2016 at 3:52 pm
Turn left left and hit it with Magnum!
July 26th, 2016 at 5:32 pm
It doesn’t look very much like Venus. For starters, his body is shaped like a normal human’s.
July 26th, 2016 at 5:52 pm
He’s running away from a giant pizza cutter/buzzsaw in a straight line . . . I have nothing else to say.
July 26th, 2016 at 6:28 pm
Is he running or has his shoe got stuck? It barely matters, the giant CD will pass by him a yard to his left.
July 26th, 2016 at 6:36 pm
@Tat: in a risky but shrewd defensive manoevre, our hero disrobes completely and thrusts his buttocks against the pizza cutter!
July 26th, 2016 at 7:53 pm
@DSWBT—a novel use of the idea of “Occam’s Razor.”
July 26th, 2016 at 9:05 pm
@B. Chiclitz – More like “Occam’s Power Saw”
July 27th, 2016 at 4:10 am
I think I know what kind of battle is taking place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWFwzDJaeKw
July 27th, 2016 at 2:22 pm
The early versions of the new Segway unicycle had a few teething problems.
July 29th, 2016 at 12:46 am
Font problems? What font problems? Don’t you know a title lifted from Lost in Space when you see it?
March 30th, 2017 at 10:55 am
When shop class teachers have nightmares.