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 God Emperor of Didcot - Toby Frost
 God Emperor of Didcot - Toby Frost ... LtdNewest Review: ... Ghasts, Smith is dispatched to the crucial tea supply world, Urn, to quell an uprising of religious fanatics. His ship is ... more ... crewed by a savage alien called Suruk the Slayer, a psychic hippy called Rhianna and a re-programmed sex android called Carveth.
Now if all of this sounds to you like the territory of a lame parody novel, you'd be pretty spot on. The broad plot of Dune is skewered, and the rambling narrative frequently takes time out for a lengthy riff on other science-fiction and fantasy classics like Alien, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Village of the Damned, The Famous Five and Lord of the Rings. Polly Carveth supplies a const...more |
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God Emperor of Didcot - Toby Frost: Moral Fibre (651 words)
by - written on 18/05/09 (Very useful, 37 readings)
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I'm a sucker for books with clever titles. I've been tricked into purchasing Robert 'Awful' Rankin's novels several times thanks to brilliant titles such as The Witches of Chiswick, and only had the habit vindicated by gems like The Big Over-Easy, and Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series. But the splendid cover of Toby Frost's God Emperor of Didcot has been staring down from the shelves at me for months, and I succumbed last week. I have a particular loathing for Frank Herbert's Dune series, and the back cover blurb ('To keep the British Empire fighting, the tea must flow') was brilliantly judged. Set in a distant future where Britain has ... Read the complete review
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