And Now for Something Completely Different by Jodi Taylor
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Title: And Now for Something Completely Different (The Chronicles of St. Mary’s #9.7)
Author: Jodi Taylor
Publisher: Accent Press 2019
Genre: Science Fiction
Pages: 78
Stars: 4/5 stars
Reading Challenges: Finishing the Series
Here’s a question for you. What’s the most exciting thing ever found in a fire bucket? And don’t say ‘fire’ because you’ll be wrong.
Suppose - just suppose - it was the technology to take a pod to Mars? Yeah, now we’re talking!
Every Christmas, for reasons which seem good at the time - especially after an eggnog or two - Max and the others leap into the nearest pod and indulge in their illegal Christmas jump. It’s a tradition. This year, however, just to be different, they find themselves part of someone else’s illegal Christmas jump. It’s time to don a spacesuit and bring your own urine!
This short story was definitely different. We get a story told not from Max’s perspective, but from the Time Police. I liked the shift even if Max is still my character. Plus we get an amazing new setting: Mars!!! It seems unlikely, but I would love a follow up story dealing with subsequent Mars settlements.
The Chronicles of St. Mary’s:
- #0.5 The Very First Damned Thing
- #1 Just One Damned Thing After Another
- #2 A Symphony of Echoes
- #2.5 When A Child is Born
- #3 A Second Chance
- #3.5 Roman Holiday
- #4 A Trail Through Time
- #4.5 Christmas Present
- #5 No Time Like the Past
- #6 What Could Possibly Go Wrong
- #6.5 Ships and Stings and Wedding Rings
- #7 Lies, Damned Lies, and History
- #7.5 The Great St. Mary’s Day Out
- #7.6 My Name is Markham
- #8 And the Rest is History
- #8.5 A Perfect Storm
- #8.6 Christmas Past
- #9 An Argumentation of Historians
- #9.5 Battersea Barricades
- #9.6 The Steam-Pump Jump
- #9.7 And Now For Something Completely Different
- #10 Hope is for the Best
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