Look! We’re Now Helpless!
August 15, 2007 by Elijah
The fine folks over at Bookgasm have just recently made me aware of the MOST INCREDIBLE BOOK EVER.
Every new tidbit learned about the strange works of Fletcher Hanks does nothing but get me more excited about reading I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets. Just look at some of the examples given in the above mentioned review. Or, better yet, head on over to the book’s Amazon page to read the first story in a preview. If that’s not enough for you, the official website has an utterly bizarre bonus story that didn’t make it into the book, and the links page has a few others.
Sweet God. If that’s what was left out of the book, what’s in there must be fucking gold.
From what little I’ve seen so far, it seems as though someone took the silly, pulpily imaginative worlds of E. E. “Doc” Smith and removed all logic and any real sense of storytelling… replacing them with the most outlandish, ridiculous, incomprehensible muddle of ingenious weirdness to ever grace a goddamn page. It is incredible.
When I do finally buy I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets I may not actually review it, because it’s possible that everything that needs to be said has already been covered in that Bookgasm review and my little rantings just now. But rest assured I will buy it, and the girlfriend and I are already discussing doing Halloween as Stardust and Fantomah.
–his scientific use of rays, has made him master of space, and planetary forces–the gas of a certain star, has made him immune to heat or cold–
Bliss.
