Battlestar Suburbia

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Battlestar Suburbia

By: Chris McCrudden

Narrated by: Chris McCrudden

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In space, no one can hear you clean....

When Darren’s charge-cart gets knocked off the Earth-to-Mars highway and lost in space forever, he thinks his day can’t get any worse.

When Kelly sees Darren accidentally short-circuit a talking lamppost, and its camera captures her face as it expires, she thinks her day can’t get any worse.

When Pamasonic Teffal, a sentient breadmaker, is sent on a top-secret mission into the depths of the Internet and betrayed by her boss, a power-crazed smartphone, she knows this is only the beginning of a day that isn’t going to get any better.

Join Darren, Kelly, and Pam in an anarchic comic adventure that takes them from the shining skyscrapers of Singulopolis to the sewers of the Dolestar Discovery, and find out what happens when a person puts down their mop and bucket and says "No." Battlestar Suburbia will be loved by fans of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and Jasper Fforde, as well as anyone who’s ever wondered just how long someone can stay under one of those old-fashioned hairdryers.*

*The answer is: a really very, very long time.

Adventure

Fiction

Genre Fiction

Humorous

Literature & Fiction

Post-Apocalyptic

Science Fiction

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Space Opera

Comedy

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Critic reviews

“Festooned with cunning punnery, sharp turns of phrase, and jokes about emojis and the internet, making this very much a comic novel of our times.” (James Lovegrove, Financial Times)

“Chris McCrudden has created a new division of SF: Science Flotsam. His sprawling space epic is what you get if you cross Dr. Who with an unhealthy fascination for household appliances. Forget alien invasion; in this explosive future you won’t be able to trust your spin dryer.” (Christopher Fowler)

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Took me a while to get into the story but I’m really glad I stayed with it. Good original story concept. Looking forward to finding out what happens next....

Slow burner

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A great listen!! Funny sci fi with laughs, comic storytelling and a sense of humour. (and a great narrator!) - it's difficult to get sci fi and humour mixed together but no such problems here.

Funny sci-fi!

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I don’t know why,, but this is just too silly, which I think is what the book was aiming for. I’d recommend for fans of futurama, but if you like sci fi comedy stick to the red dwarf novels

Too silly

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