Space Captain Smith - Toby Frost

Imagine a future where the British Empire has risen to control interstellar space, controlling and administering the cosmos on behalf of aliens and foreigners who can't be trusted to do it themselves. In this faintly steampunk future, Captain Isambard Smith, a repressed English gentleman with school issues and a perfectly waxed moustache, must take to the skies abord the John Pym. His crew is a collection of motley misfits, as befits any tale of derring-do worth its salt. A sex android pilots the ship on the grounds that she's the one who has the Haynes manual. Suruk the Slayer, an M'Lak warrior, carries shopping bags to store the severed heads of his enemies. ...  Read the complete review