The Empress of Mars by Kage Baker

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The Empress of Mars by Kage Baker

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


A beerily maniacal skiffy romp. A bunch of social misfits do what people do when they’re shipped off to colonize Mars: run a bar, have babies, and give the bureaucrats a serious fucking headache.



The sort of cheerfully madcap book that has sentences like, “And that was the end of Marsha the cow,” and “’I’ll just go off and see an oppressive corporate monolithic evil entity about a dog, shall I?’” That really gives you all the flavor you need. There’s some other stuff about church power struggles and the deeper powers moving behind them, but you know, that is so completely not the point.



A delight.



Caution: Do not confuse this, the novel, with Baker's novella of the same name.



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