Switchblade Honey (Warren Ellis) torrent

Switchblade Honey
AIT/Planet Lar, 2003.


Switchblade Honey is Star Trek for those with more of a cynical streak than most of Gene Roddenberry's fans. Ellis admits in his introduction right upfront that this whole thing started as a gag, sort of a riff on Star Trek, but while there's definitely a less-than-serious air about the whole thing, Switchblade Honey isn't a humor piece. It's science-fiction high adventure with more than a little bad attitude, and, courtesy of Brandon McKinney, some pretty sleek looking starships. It is a little light, and some of the ideas don't really come through as well as they could, but this is a genre rarely tackled well at all, and there are plenty of fun moments in this story.

To Ellis, the Federation is a bunch of stuffy old men who don't smoke, drink or do anything else fun and for whom humanity is an intellectual exercise rather than a part of their being. This small crew is about the best representation of why humanity deserves to survive, even though they're a bunch of cursing, hard-drinking, chain-smoking and occasionally drug-addicted criminals. That they're also a lot more fun to hang around with than the prim and proper 16th century English navy in starships isn't a big surprise.

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