Hard Luck Hank Robot Farts (Audible Audio Edition) Steven Campbell Liam Owen Books
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Sometimes it's not easy being a mutant thug.
The space station Belvaille, once the center of civilization, is nearly deserted because of the new government's policies. Hank makes do by working odd jobs, but he isn't sure how long those, or the city, can last.
However, there are still some people trying to scratch out a (dis)honest living on Belvaille. Hank concocts a plan to save the city steal from the countless transports and freighters that pass through the System.
In the meantime, Hank falls in with a tough crowd of freedom fighters who seem determined to overthrow the government. The team goes on exceedingly dangerous assignments, with Hank taking the brunt of the danger.
As if things weren't bad enough, the Navy set up residence in the System, a powerful alien dignitary is scheduled to arrive, and Hank's absurdly-competent butler states that his robotic species may declare war on Hank's home.
It's up to Hank to fix the problems, find out who is doing what and why, and to try and earn a little cash in the process.
Hard Luck Hank Robot Farts (Audible Audio Edition) Steven Campbell Liam Owen Books
As always, I laughed out loud a bunch of times while reading this.I don't like most books. I stop reading many kindle books after the first chapter and return about 80% of the audible books after 30 minutes of listening. I get bored easily. I also get agitated when the author makes "cheap" decisions like having their main protagonist do something stupid or weak in order jamb the plot into their chosen direction.
The Hard Luck Hank series is a joy to read. There're funny, they're imaginative, the characters are interesting and likable, there's always a lot of interesting stuff going on. Underneath it all there are even some interesting ideas about society, government, and interpersonal relationships.
Also a lot of cool science fiction concepts: What would a race of sentient robots be like? What would someone who was immortal and billions of years old do?
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Hard Luck Hank Robot Farts (Audible Audio Edition) Steven Campbell Liam Owen Books Reviews
ROBOT FARTS is the latest of the HARD LUCK HANK series that I find consistently entertaining. It's a sci-fi series about the continuing misadventures of an immortal almost (but not quite) indestructible professional thug named Hank. Hank is a fairly awful person and has committed a number of murders for no other reason than he was paid to. He's also a person who has saved the universe on a couple of occasion.
The series is notable for the fact every iteration has the station of Belvaille going through some dramatic change. Sometimes it's the capital of the galaxy, sometimes its a impoverished hellhole, sometimes its a slightly less impoverished hellhole, and other times its (just) the football capital of the galaxy. In Robot Farts, Belvaille has come full circle back to the crime-ridden hellhole it was in the first book with everyone virtually back in the same place they started.
Well, not quite, as Hank has finally discovered he's not a mutant but a member of a long-thought-extinct race of aliens who tend to be as fat as himself (except for Hank's new girlfriend who is the attractive schoolgirl-meets-guerilla on the cover). While Hank is about as apolitical as they come, the allure of sex is something which easily convinces him to go along with said race's plans to get revenge on the present galactic government for their homeworld's destruction. You know, despite not being the government which did it.
There's multiple interesting plots going on in this book, not the least being Hank's attempt to save organized crime on the station by taxing every ship coming through. This, of course, blows up in Hank's face. However, sadly, the series falls back on its least interesting villain to once more make a threat to the galaxy which I felt should be shied away from. Hank is always at his most interesting when he's saving his wallet rather than the universe.
Robot Farts is a decent enough novel with the same likable characters and screw-ups which made the previous novels. This one lies a bit more on continuity than it should as well as too much in the way of "threats to the universe." I'm hoping future installments will be more about Hank trying to line his pockets instead. Still, I'm glad I read it. I'm also sad Hank's girlfriend didn't play a bigger role as she was always entertaining. There's nothing quite so humorous as a die-hard capitalist gangster signed up with an idealistic to the point of stupidity pseudo-communist revolutionary.
8/10
Good I don't know how Steven Campbell does it. He's been cranking out a new Hank novel roughly every eight months, and they just keep getting better and better. This time around Belvaille is in the dumps - again - and nearly deserted and almost ignored by the new Colmarian Confederation - again. Hank and his cohorts still manage to get caught up in a hacked election (nice timing there, Steven) that leads to a peculiar war with the Dredel Led and, as usual, to Hank being a hero while managing to tick off just about everyone on the station. Again as usual, the story is well-written, highly entertaining, fast-paced with lots of fun twists and turns, often ascending to Pythonic levels of ludicrousness which is okay because, as usual, it's also really damn funny.
Bad Not much of anything. Campbell has grown as a writer throughout this series, and it shows in the tight storyline and the natural, nuanced interplay among the characters here. The setting keeps threatening to settle into formula, but Campbell always manages to keep it fresh and interesting. (A while back, in an earlier review, I offered that maybe the Belvaille setting was played out, and that Hank should get away from there for awhile. Don't listen to me. Belvaille reinvents itself more often than Madonna in her heyday. This is as it should be.)
Ugly Hank, who, in the considered opinion of just about everyone on and off Belvaille, could stand to lose a few pounds. He's a MUTANT, people; that's his story, etc.
Bottom line Buy it, read it. If you haven't seen the other five novels in the series, buy them, read them. If you have, read them again; why not. Five stars.
As always, I laughed out loud a bunch of times while reading this.
I don't like most books. I stop reading many kindle books after the first chapter and return about 80% of the audible books after 30 minutes of listening. I get bored easily. I also get agitated when the author makes "cheap" decisions like having their main protagonist do something stupid or weak in order jamb the plot into their chosen direction.
The Hard Luck Hank series is a joy to read. There're funny, they're imaginative, the characters are interesting and likable, there's always a lot of interesting stuff going on. Underneath it all there are even some interesting ideas about society, government, and interpersonal relationships.
Also a lot of cool science fiction concepts What would a race of sentient robots be like? What would someone who was immortal and billions of years old do?
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