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Title: Illegal Aliens by Nick Pollotta, Phil Foglio ISBN: 1-58715-796-9 Publisher: Wildside Pr Pub. Date: 26 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.94 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is too funny for just words!!
Comment: I remember when I first read this book, I was wearing a gas mask during an excercise in Germany, I laughed so hard I nearly passed out from lack of Oxygen. I dragged it around the world, everywhere I went I would read it to get my mind off the world. It was worth it, the day I lost my copy I tore a cargo plane apart looking for it. And nearly cried when we didn't find it, years later it was sent in the mail by a soldier in Grafenwier. I have another copy now, but I still keep it locked up. It is the funniest book I've ever read. I can truly picture everything described as happening, especially with those UN Space Marines, the writers had to have done time in the military. The poker games, the "beer can" effect, gain a stripe lose a stripe in one day, everything. So true to life.It's a wonderful book!!
Rating: 5
Summary: The best of the best sci-fi!!
Comment: I first read this wonderful book many years ago, and it became my instant favorite SF book.
Over the years, it became tattered and raggedy from rereading, and gorgeous coverart by Mr. Foglio was covered over by all the taped used to hold the book together. And now its back! This time, I'm buying a couple of copies and squirreling away one for future reading.
Pity they only did the one book. Girl Genuis by Foglio and the Bureau 13 stuff by Pollotta are both good, but together these guys really rock.
Rating: 5
Summary: A brilliant satire of humanity's first contact with aliens.
Comment: This is by far one of my favorite books. Briefly, it concerns mankind's reaction to the landing of an alien spaceship in Central park.
This book is somewhat distinctive in that it takes into account both humanity's resourcefulness and its perversity. With humor typical of the authors, in a linguistic mishap the aliens accidently abduct a street gang instead of the construction crew they had had their sights on. The resulting hijinks end with the Earth being put on Galactic interdiction, complete with a police blockade.
Naturally, humanity isn't going to take this insult lying down! I mean, they're only aliens, after all. The second part of the novel deals with the good guys' attempt to contact the ruling council of the Galaxy in a half completed spaceship built with stolen and barely understood technology. In the process, they must defeat an interstellar blackmarketeer and criminal organization, in addition to the Great Golden Ones (the star cops).
This book will have you in stitches within the first chapter-- guaranteed. Don't pick it up unless you have a healthy chunk of free time on your hands, or extrodinary willpower. You won't be able to put it down.
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Title: Bureau 13: Full Moonster by Nick Pollotta ISBN: 1587157586 Publisher: Wildside Pr Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Bureau 13: Doomsday Exam by Nick Pollotta ISBN: 1587154676 Publisher: Wildside Press Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Bureau 13 : #1 Judgment Night by Nick Pollotta ISBN: 1587153092 Publisher: Wildside Press Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The XXXenophile Collection Vol. #5 by Phil Foglio ISBN: 1889061107 Publisher: XXXenophile Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The XXXenophile Big Book 'O Fun by Phil Foglio ISBN: 1884568017 Publisher: XXXenophile Books/Palliard Press Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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