Genre: Sci-Fi/ Humour.
Las Vegas 1978: Police officer Wayne Norton stumbles into a group of Mafiosi having a bit of a dispute and is cudgelled acros the back of the head.
300 Years later: Norton wakes up from a cryogenic sleep to find him,self in a very, very different world. Before he has time to work out what the hell is going on, he's dragooned into the GalacticCop police force and sent on a crucial mission.
Except nobody seems to want to tell him what the mission is. Or anything at all. That can't be good.
I liked the title of this book. I liked the cover of this book. However I am sadly unable to say I liked the book itself.
It starts off decently enough, with Wayne being introduced and then sent for his overlong nap. But once he arrives in the Future it all got a bit too much for me.
A lot of the humour relies on rapid-fire, maximum confusion dialogue and that didn't really do anything for me but get me um...confused. The fact that most of the characters change their names the way most people change socks doesn't help. There's also the slight problem that most of the characters are a little thin so even the ones we're supposed to care about just sort of wander past without registering.
There's nothing wrong with the writing and there are some nice ideas but the execution left me cold. And confused.
I suppose I could also take exception to the fact that the titular Bikini planet only shows up right at the end and isn't remotely what you'd expect.
A book called "Bikini Planet" ought to have been more fun than this.
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