Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival.
A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people.” Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. We leave the Stones taking off from Mars "outward bound to the ends of the Universe".Īre we not men? We are-well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).Ī zombie apocalypse is one thing. The twins buy Buster a "flat cat", a charming animal which unfortunately breeds as fast as a hamster. Once arrived Grandma and five-year-old Buster are almost lost in outer space. Stone, transfers to another space ship to be of help in a mysterious epidemic. Accordingly, the family buys a second-hand space ship and starts out for immeasureable space as casually as the average family embarks on a picnic. Headed by Hazel, a pistol-toting grandma, most of the interest centers around Castor and Pollux, the fifteen year old "unheavenly twins", a mischievous brace who want to go to Mars to sell second-hand bicycles, at a smart profit.
The Stones are a space-minded family of pioneer earth people who came to the moon to live.
Booksellers and librarians can suggest this one with an easy conscience, even for the timid. Heinlein wonder of wonders- has turned out a WHOLESOME book on outer space.
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