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
As a series, Hard Luck Hank reads like a deep space version of the Dresden Files, complete with hard-boiled adventures centered on a single city. Unlike Harry Dresden, Hank is mere hired muscle who has been promoted to the rank of fixer by the sole virtue that he is essentially unkillable. It certainly is not for Hank's wit; it is a mercy that his catchphrase, "Eat suck, suckface!" is used sparingly. Fortunately, Campbell has a defter touch with his humor than Hank. As the one person everyone in the underworld is forced to trust (since it's too much trouble to kill him), Hank must navigate the maze of problems besetting the illegal space station of Belvaille, from petty criminal squabbles to galactic wars, muddling through his adventures through determined self-interest, luck, his ever-growing bulk of scar tissue, and help from his more talented friends. As a reward, Hank's fortunes follow the rises and falls of Belvaille from criminal backwater to galaxy capital and back. Despite Hank's crude nature, Steven Campbell weaves a dense web of cause and effect throughout the six book series. The answer to why anything happens to and around Hank is never "Just because." Even seemingly throwaway references have a tendency to become plot points.
In Robot Farts, Hank finds himself in the middle of one of Belvaille's periodic downturns. For the space station to survive in the midst of a runaway bureaucracy that's strangling trade, it must return its old traditions of corruption, skimming needed supplies from the shipments in its spaceport. While Hank sets up the framework for the Skim between Belvaille's underworld, the merchantmen flying through, and the squeaky-clean but heavily bureaucratic navy, he must also deal with the mysterious hacking of a robot civilization's homeworld, the crime spree from a rebel cell of his alien brothers, and the growing drumbeat of war. As usual, Hank gets completely over his head, usually because his methods hurl him into the crossfire - as a bullet sponge. Hank might be a meathead, but his adventures are a guilty pleasure.
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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