Simplified Series - Ack-Ack Macaque
Eat yer heart out cover artist for Gordon R. Dickson's The Right to Arm Bears ! My feverish pursuit of MOAR content brought forth this feature: Simplified Series. Here's the pitch: quick synopses (I'll try and keep them spoiler-free, but, you know, most of these are past the statute of limitations on spoilers) of the entries in a series followed by the reasons you should or shouldn't read it. This week: The Ack-Ack Macaque trilogy by Gareth L. Powell Background Info: So, you may recall that in 2013 Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie won the British Science Fiction Award (and several others) for Best Novel. It was actually a tie that year. The other winner was Gareth L. Powell's Ack-Ack Macaque . As one might expect, Ack-Ack Macaque is very different from Ancillary Justice , you may have guessed from the titles and cover art that this series has a more humorous bent than the Imperial Radch trilogy (though I will say that Ann Leckie's books do have plenty...