Review: Interstellar Caveman

Interstellar Caveman by Karl Beecher
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Interstellar Caveman is what I imagine Buck Rogers would have been if the original story had been written by Douglas Adams. Our hapless hero, Colin, is thrust unwillingly into the future after a series of unfortunate events forces him into cryogenic sleep for an undetermined (but very long) time. Colin is not a military genius, action hero, or crack star pilot… he’s just an out of work, Luddite insurance analyst who bumbles through his new life and attempts to navigate a strange future society where human civilization has stretched across the stars and colonized multiple planets.

The storyline of Interstellar Caveman is quite fun and unpredictable; I never knew quite where it was going. The book is light-hearted fun, so you can’t take its vision of future society or new technology seriously, as it's meant more as a humorous satire than a serious science fiction novel (which Colin would have hated anyway). I do think at times that the parody and humor felt a bit too out of place and occasionally the pacing of the story and dialog felt a bit uneven, but all-in-all, it was a wonderful and diverting read.

Thank you to Aethon Books who provided me this book free of charge at my request.

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