Gestapo Mars
Victor Gischler
Titan Books, Sep 22 2015, $14.95
ISBN: 9781783297351
His first action after being awakened from a two and half plus
century stasis sleep is to puke on the shoes of the whining cry-lab nerd. The other geek Glitter Tie begins to explain
to Carter Sloan why he was awakened when they have contemporary superior
operatives, but they are easily outed by all their implanted gizmos. An explosion interrupts them; followed by GT
committing suicide. The jackbooted thugs
enter the briefing room led by a frustrated captain who shoots three slugs into
GT’s corpse before telling Mr. Sloan they came to rescue him from rebels.
Tricking the rebels on Europa with a false success, Empire
Internal Security Agent Armand escorts Sloan to their headquarters on Mars
after the revived twentieth century man learns earthlings nuked the home planet
into oblivion. Sloan’s mission is to
infiltrate the enemy by pretending to be a rebel asset so that he can assassinate
the Brass Dragon’s daughter.
Over the top of Olympus
Mons, Gestapo Mars is a gory science fiction that provides a macabrely
absorbing satirical future. While
readers follow the bellicose bloody and sensationally sexual exploits of Sloan,
his Nazis handlers are extrapolated caricatures of the 1940s variety (kept
expecting them to dance to and sing “Springtime for Hitler” from the
Producers). Once again Victor Gischler authors an outrageously entertaining saga
with an intriguing final spin.
Harriet Klausner
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