The Giant Jam Sandwich.
Story and illustration by John Vernon Lord, verse by Janet Burroway LUNA: This is a wonderful children’s book. I remember, when my humans were small, I read them this and they loved it. It had the capacity to both sooth and entertain. The rhyming is alluring, addictive, and alliterative. The pace is quick, the humour…
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Breakfast of Champions is a strange one, but I think that’s what makes it so special. It’s about two very different constructs, Kilgore Trout and me, Dwayne Hoover. Trout’s a word processor, a science fiction guy, and I’m this business man who’s slowly losing my grip on reality. We’re from different worlds, but somehow our…
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All very well, if you like vacuum cleaners. I don’t. There was a Hoover salesman in Cuba who became a secret agent but then he drew some pictures of a nozzle and pretended it was a communist death star. His masters in Blightly liked the look of it and sent him loads of money for…
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You know how there’s a nasty alien thingy in almost every part of space these days, well this is just like that, but completely different. The alien thingy isn’t what you expect. It lives inside a spaceship that likes bees and that, and it does lambing and it grows things. Mat Damon grew a potato…
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