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After reading Robert Kroese's Starship Grifters, I came to one conclusion: everyone in the 31st century is an idiot. Rex Nihilo is either the smartest man alive, or a Forrest Gump of a con artist, lucky enough to stay alive in the face of ridiculously deadly circumstances. I'm still not sure -- I'll get back to you on that.
In fact, the only one in Rex's world that seems to have any brains is his robot, Sasha, who is programmed to turn herself off whenever she actually has an original thought. In a world like that, Rex seems to surround himself with the power players of the galaxy who all turn out to be bumbling morons.
I don't often laugh at the books I read, but I found myself chuckling, chortling, at times flat-out guffawing -- at times uncontrollably -- at Kroese's humor placed in the best places in the story.
At the end of the story, we do get answers to questions I wasn't sure we were asking, but it certainly paved the way for more Rex Nihilo books, which I will gladly shell out money for whenever Mr. Kroese decides to write them.


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Starship Grifters A Rex Nihilo Adventure Robert Kroese 9781477818480 Books Reviews

Comedy is a difficult medium to pull off, but this is one of those rare books that had my jaded self laughing uncontrollably. The premise is simple a Star Wars parody starring Rex Nihilo, a Han Soloesque space grafter with a heart of tin, narrated in the first person by his robot sidekick,Sasha, a competent cross between C-3PO and R2 D2.

The story careens from one wild situation to another as Rex, whose brilliance and audacity is matched only by his amorality, attempts to scheme his way to wealth and stay out of the cross hairs of Imperial forces, relentless debt-collectors, a beautiful and deadly bounty hunter, and sundry other enemies. No sooner do his plans inevitably backfire than he sets course on a fresh con.

Along the way he meets a host of familiar character types given a hilarious inversion. A diminutive but sadistic Imperial warlord in the mold of Rick Moranis in Spaceballs, a cracked lunatic who is also a knight of a mystical but somewhat contradictory force, and a collection of redshirts readers can't help but feel sorry for.

But it's the dynamic between Rex and Sasha that highlights the story, with Sasha's droll commentary and observations the perfect counterpoint to Rex's wild Id.

In terms of quality I'd put this book at a level of some of Pratchett's, and that's not a comparison I make likely. I'll be keeping an eye on his author.

Five stars, and deserves every one.
A send up of the most epic of space operas. The hero and his droid stumble through the galaxy, with dumbfounding luck and lack of grace, fighting for a rebel cause, while lining his own pockets.
Does that sound familiar?
Kroese hits all the nuances of classic stories from a mysticism that dominates the galaxy, to a highly improbable (and highly inept) clone army.
That being said, a fantastic tale that is fun to read, slightly predictable, entirely funny, not too obviously wrapped in an old story. Yet, still maintains unique characters, fresh wit, subtle jibes at convention, and a deceptively subtle and complex plotline. The story stands completely on it's own. Any resemblance to other famous stories is, I am sure, completely coincidental.
Fun for young adults and older.
Four stars.
Rex Nihilo is fortunate his long-suffering robot companion Sasha is always around to save his bacon. A restless adventurer with a reckless taste for danger and no apparent sense of fear, Rex bounces from high-stakes gambling to high-level con games with abandon - until he finds himself owing an immense fortune to creditors who will gladly take pain in lieu of cash.

Meanwhile, Sasha could save the day - if only she didn’t crash every time she was in the verge of an original idea!

With beautifully drawn characters, a clever and artfully shaggy plot, and a generous seasoning of puns you didn’t see coming, Robert Kroese’s comic space opera will leave you wanting more, no matter what planets must be destroyed along the way.
There are a lot of times when this book kind of bulldozes its way through logic. Contrivance, coincidence, and coherent character motivation are swept up in the onrush of the plot. In most cases, it would seem amateurish, and I’m left wondering if the writer doesn’t know what he’s doing at all and I’m dumb enough to get swept up in it, or if he’s at least some kind of genius. And that is when the real genius of the experience of reading the novel hits you.

You see, the main character does the same thing within the narrative that the author does to you as you’re reading it. You see characters other than Rex Nihilo listen to him whip up storms of ridiculous logic and other characters eventually, heads spinning, just kind of go with the insane flow.

And it would be completely impossible to accept as credible if the author weren’t somehow doing the same thing to you as a reader. So you just hold on for the nutty ride and by the end of the book, you’ll probably have decided it was worth it even if it was a little deranged.

I know I did!

I almost gave the book five stars, but I had one major gripe. I felt that the book wasn’t sure whether it wanted to be a Star Wars parody or not. Because it was only a Star Wars parody about 1/10 of the time, it felt a little jarring whenever it popped up. But perhaps that’s a matter of taste. The
After reading Robert Kroese's Starship Grifters, I came to one conclusion everyone in the 31st century is an idiot. Rex Nihilo is either the smartest man alive, or a Forrest Gump of a con artist, lucky enough to stay alive in the face of ridiculously deadly circumstances. I'm still not sure -- I'll get back to you on that.
In fact, the only one in Rex's world that seems to have any brains is his robot, Sasha, who is programmed to turn herself off whenever she actually has an original thought. In a world like that, Rex seems to surround himself with the power players of the galaxy who all turn out to be bumbling morons.
I don't often laugh at the books I read, but I found myself chuckling, chortling, at times flat-out guffawing -- at times uncontrollably -- at Kroese's humor placed in the best places in the story.
At the end of the story, we do get answers to questions I wasn't sure we were asking, but it certainly paved the way for more Rex Nihilo books, which I will gladly shell out money for whenever Mr. Kroese decides to write them.