When I read the blurb on this book from Neil Gaiman, I knew I was going to have to read the book:
Bikini Planet. Just those two words make me think of bikinis. And planets. Er, and David Garnett.
Now we know Neil Gaiman will blurb anything.
It’s also some nice light reading. Nothing deep, obviously. Hell, I can’t even recommend it as fluff. Cause if you are male and looking for some literary T’n'A, there isn’t much here. Most of the story has very little in the way of bikinis. Or planets for that matter. A lot of spaceships. And a lot of fading to black as the camera focuses on a fireplace. But it doesn’t feel like that, cause it’s all done with a geeky clueless character in a joking manner. Basic plot: Wayne Norton is a rookie cop cryogenically frozen in 1968. But instead of waking up in the future as Austin Powers, he wakes up as geeky Wayne Norton 300 years in the future. He’s drafted as a cop, but the cops won’t tell him what his job is. So lots of people are after him for an incomprehensible (at least until the end) reason. And he meets a hot babe who goes mostly naked except when she’s shy. With other people after her for an incomprehensible reason.
So yeah. Bikinis. And planets.
Author: David Garnett
Title: Bikini planet
Imprint / publisher: Roc / New American Library / Penguin Putnam
Format: Mass market paperback
Publication date: December 2001
Length: 279 p.
ISBN-10: 0-451-45860-5
LC classification: PR6057.A677 B558 2000
