Genre: Satire, Dark Comedy
Description:
The time is now (almost), and some
Americans have decided that Canada is not quite far enough from their roiling
homeland. For them there is ComeTakeMe.com, a website where people advertise to
get taken by aliens.
Author:
E.M. Skyler is a pseudonym. The author provides no personal
information.
Appraisal:
Come Take
Me is a delightfully
wacky tale perhaps best enjoyed with an impish wine: Antihero notes of Confederacy
of Dunces, plot hints of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
and aromatic nuances of anything by Kurt Vonnegut. Overall delicious.
Besides the
enjoyment of a nutty space odyssey, we learn what a giant telepathic centipede
that is underemployed as a tour guide has in common with a semi sentient human
from Earth. They are just alike in everything that really matters, as it turns
out.
What is the
worst possible punishment for weight-loss hucksters? Obvious, but still
satisfying.
Can a human
social misfit, in his intergalactic quest to prevent the destruction of 277
worlds, be aided by immortal zombie fish with a hankering for an orgy every
hundred years? That’s a gray area. Perhaps it’s more important if the human
saves them from ennui.
What happens
when a human that had become a media star among the fully sentient races of the
universe is returned to his prior dour existence? The answer might come along
on the next bus.
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FYI:
Fish orgies are not suitable reading for
young humans
Format/Typo
Issues:
None
Rating: *****
Five Stars
Reviewed
by: Sam Waite
Approximate word count: 80-85,000 Words
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