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The Sky Done Ripped (Ned the Seal) by Joe R. Lansdale
\nCover Artist: Timothy Truman
\nReview by Ernest Lilley
\nSubterranean Hardcover ISBN\/ITEM#: 9781596069107
\nDate: 31 December 2019 List Price $40.00
\nLinks: http:\/\/www.sfrevu.com\/php\/Review-id.php?id=18687<\/p>\n
If you’re looking for an absurdist mash-up of H.G.Wells, Jules Verne, Authur Conan Doyle, and pretty much every other proto-steampunk adventure you can image, you’ve come to the right place. If you’re looking for the further adventures of Ned, the steampunk\/cybernetically uplifted seal, ditto, and it’s a fine place to be. But if you’re looking for serious science fiction, don’t stop here. But if you’re up for some pulpy-steampunky-timey-whimy fun, by all means, pull up a chair.<\/p>\n
H.G. Wells (the author is a character here) and Ned the seal, travel in time, space, and across parallel worlds in what can only be thought of as Verne’s Nautilis crossed with a Tardis. Stopping off on a planet of the apes alternate Earth just after the alien invasion and subsequent panic, Ned and Wells pick up young Bill and his sister Suzy Q., survivors of a shipwreck caused when the cruise ship carrying the president fleeing to safe-haven ran into a flying saucer. More of a floating saucer.
\nThen things get weird. Tarzan (Tongo in this world), a Vernian underground world, Airships, Giant stone juggernauts, and the evil Toni, the unloved daughter of the Ape-American president, now a strange hybrid filled with knowledge from the aliens and mutating into something remarkably revolting.<\/p>\n
It all comes down to a race to grab the golden fleece and maybe get everyone somewhere they can call home.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, we’ve got Ned our side.<\/p>\n
W.C. Fields once remarked that you should never work with animals or children, as they’ll both upstage you. Ned proves the truth of that, red fez and all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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