Extreme C-Sections!
by Michael Carson
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Author: Michael CarsonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-03-02
ISBN: 1419649213
Number of pages: 386
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
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Book Review: Unadulterated fun with satirical science fiction shenanigans run amuck
Summary: 5 Stars
I would like the chance to hear author Michael Carson speak because I'm pretty sure his tongue is permanently planted in his cheek - and that has to make the act of speaking tough. I don't know a whole lot about this young author - only that he has a definite knack for comedy, is no stranger to science fiction, and that he has absorbed an extraordinary amount of pop culture knowledge in his twenty-odd years of human existence. He even knows a lot of the old school stuff that I wouldn't expect someone so young to be familiar with. I keep talking about Carson's age, and that is because this is a very youthful novel - Carson's never met a joke he rejected as too corny, and any old fogies out there probably won't understand or appreciate an author who has such unadulterated fun with his writing. Normally, I detest the least sign of authorial intrusion into a story, but it actually works well here (and the author's not the only external voice that turns up in these pages). Carson even goes so far as to insert himself as a character in the book - in a short and very funny episode.
Life on Earth in 9998 is pretty great, what with all of those "futuristic" gadgets everywhere. There's only one problem: all manner of aliens keep launching attacks on the Earth on a weekly basis. When I say Earth, I mean Earth 3, of course, as humans long ago had to abandon the polluted home world of their origin, then learned the hard way (on Earth 2) that intelligent, armed dinosaurs of their own genetic manufacture don't make for the most practical of planet protectors. Now, though, someone has come up with an idea that could end the alien menace forever. It's a perfect, wholly successful plan - which means, of course, that somebody screws up somewhere. Sure, the Independence Day race, the Mars Attacks creatures, the War of the Worlds Martians, and even Alf and E.T. have been defeated, but one race still remains out there (thanks to a postal error): man's most feared enemy, the Aliens aliens. Obviously, something must be done to take this last remaining threat out. Sure, the Aliens aliens can't get to Earth without finding themselves a human host, but the idea of simply leaving them be out there on their distant planet is shot down almost immediately. Instead, Earth 3 quickly constructs a huge space ship (the Spaceship Idaho), chooses a crew made up of representatives from all (and I do mean all) population groups, and launches a mission to travel to and blow up the Aliens' home planet. The group is led by old Oliver Naise - he's only thirty-four, but this is a world where no one over 30 is allowed to perform important jobs such as acting, playing sports, or saving the world, no matter how many times he's saved the world in the past.
Getting to the Aliens planet is easy; getting back home alive turns out to be the hard part. A spy in the crew's midst allows the Aliens to infiltrate the ship, which causes nothing but trouble, including a good many deaths - thank goodness they brought all those Extra crew members along with them. If that's not enough, the crew's cybernetic dog accidentally winds up in Kill the Crew mode, there's a small self-destruct issue that needs to be dealt with, a dark secret about Earth 3's government is revealed, and ... well, you don't expect me to tell you everything, do you?
Suffice it to say that anyone who enjoys science fiction and unadulterated satirical humor will get a big kick out of Extreme C-Sections. You will need a general awareness of prominent science fiction movies and related pop culture icons in order to fully "get" what Carson is doing here, but only the most fuddy of duddies won't know enough to recognize a fair share of the plot elements satirically skewered in this novel. Also, be prepared not to take anything too seriously because this young author will have none of that. I daresay that no one, not even Mr. Spock himself, could possibly read Extreme C-Sections without laughing.
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