ALIENS: BEWARE OF LOW-FLYING
AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY
Chip Connolly was a conscripted grunt in trouble. Here he was, stuck behind enemy lines with a bunch of cyber-uplifted rats and bats. Rats with human speech, but with rat values. Rats that knew what was worth fighting for: sex, food and strong drink. True, they were holed up on a ruined wine-farm with enough brandy to swim in. Trouble was, there wasn't much food. And with shrew-metabolism the rats had to eat. He was next on the menu. The bats were no help: they were crazy revolutionaries planning to throw off the yoke of human enslavement—with high explosive. As if that wasn't bad enough, there was the girl they'd rescued. Rich. Beautiful. With a passionate crush on her 'heroic' rescuer. She came with added extras: a screwball Alien tutor, and a cyber-uplifted pet galago—a tiny little lemurlike-critter with a big mouth and delusions about being the world's greatest lover.
So: he'd volunteered for a suicide mission. Of course things only got worse. The whole crew decided to come along. Seven rats, five bats, a galago, two humans, a sea-urchin-like alien and an elderly vineyard tractor without brakes . . . against several million inimical aliens. He was going to die.
Mind you, not dying could be even more terrible. That girl might get him.
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Product ReviewGreat story. Can't you list the related novels together? I remember reading a prequel where fitzhugh joins up to the army and he gets injured. I don't remember the title and I can't seem to find it anywhere.
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Product ReviewOne of my favorite books. I've re-read it countless times abd bought it again as an e-book just to re-read it anywhere. (Though I must admit the sequel's even better)
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Product ReviewLighthearted, well written, and quite amusing. The whole book has the absurdity of a Monty Python sketch, but you just go along with it and its such an enjoyable read.
One of the most enjoyable books I have read in a long time.Posted on
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