Red Limit Freeway by John DeChancie
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I generally want to like this more than I do. I mean, I enjoy a different kind of SF, and one with truckers in an SFnal situation is just weird enough to tickle me (I mean, space roads, really?)

And honestly, that is pretty great.

As for this novel in particular, it was ... kinda all over the place with fractured and even half-baked plots designed more for the comic value and snark than a cohesive thread. The stake-creep was pretty obvious and not very well grounded. And even if I may be a bit un-generous compared to my normal reading habits, I will say it kinda matches the whole 80's shtick--half Smokey and the Bandit, half Piers Anthony. Which isn't bad, always, but it CAN get old. And having done my time with both as a kid, I think I'm gonna tap out again.

Not bad if you want this kind of thing, of course, I think I would have preferred more plot, less throwaway tv-episode feel.


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