{"id":11772,"date":"2010-08-23T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=11772"},"modified":"2010-08-23T15:00:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T14:00:50","slug":"book-review-all-aliens-like-burgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/books\/book-review-all-aliens-like-burgers\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: All Aliens Like Burgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Aliens-Like-Burgers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11773\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 10px;\" title=\"Aliens-Like-Burgers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Aliens-Like-Burgers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Aliens-Like-Burgers.jpg 1196w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Aliens-Like-Burgers-300x467.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Aliens-Like-Burgers-768x1195.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Aliens-Like-Burgers-616x959.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a>Author<\/strong>: Ruth Wheeler<br \/>\n<strong>Publisher<\/strong>: Hirst<\/p>\n<p>A new author from Hirst\u2019s fresh talent range is Ruth Wheeler, with her debut All Aliens Like Burgers, a funny and well-meaning take on the genre which, while it doesn\u2019t reach dizzying heights, is a satisfying first effort. Tom Bowler is a typical middle class Generation Y young man, who seems distinctly unfazed by large spaceships advertising jobs that he applies for, and eventually gets, attempting to fill his gap year with something other than drifting aimlessly. This job, however, is local in the local cluster sense rather than a Starbucks one, and he soon finds himself based on the planetoid Truxxe, where all manner of adventures ensure.<\/p>\n<p>Wheeler\u2019s characters scream with shades of Douglas Adams and similar veins of comedic science fiction. Her imagination pops from page to page, and the reader can quite happily be absorbed in her world of android supervisors and Glorbians. It\u2019s not, perhaps, on a par with other efforts in the same vein, but it passes the time. The author\u2019s hand is fluid, but does stumble on occasion. The problem isn\u2019t so much in the dialogue \u2013 that\u2019s snappy and fluent \u2013 but in the expositional moments, in description and casual adjective use. We don\u2019t always need to know how the character has done something, as it soon becomes wearing; we just need to know that the character did it. The plot, as well, while generally well constructed, may not hold the attention of a non-genre fan for too long, this being targeted loosely at a younger market of science fiction readers.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, however, this is a step above many first time authors out there, and we\u2019re keenly looking forward to what Wheeler, with more experience under her belt, puts out next.<\/p>\n<p>[isbn name=&#8221;All Aliens Like Burgers&#8221;]978-0955714931[\/isbn]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Wheeler&#8217;s All Aliens Like Burgers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1624],"tags":[1644,141,726],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Aliens-Like-Burgers.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}