So I started reading it. I didn’t get very far. I dunno maybe it just annoyed me and won’t you. But while it is obviously bizzaro fiction and that entire subgenre gets away with a lot of things – this one just didn’t work for me.

All right, drop me in a world where Bruce Campbell’s followers cut off their right hand. And try to destroy everything else. Sure. And out Shatner at a con about him. Sure. But things like a character who smokes, and every time you see her she is dragging, literally, half a cig in a single drag, every time? It gets odd and old.

Add to it the idea of a fiction bomb that erases a work of fiction from reality so that it never existed? Well strange but all right I guess?

Here’s where it lost me. There’re four theatres showing constant Shatner stuff at this convention. We’re told each one has like three levels of seating, each theatre seating 2k people. Each one is soundproofed. EXCEPT! The screens are free hanging, and behind them is open, joined space that isn’t soundproofed of divided. So that someone can stand there and see the back of each screen all at the same time.

Wait, what? Sound doesn’t really work like that. If you can hear all the movies in the back, those screens aren’t thick enough to stop sound, for seriously. Especially not if you can see what is projected on them (reversed, ‘natch) from behind. And that might seem like a minor point to you but it is an underlying issue of odd laziness on the part of this book that annoyed the crap out of me.

If you want me to buy into twenty impossible things before lunch then the non-impossible can’t also be impossible simply for the sake of it makes your life easier. Sorry, Charlie.

Also, frankly, writing the main Shatner full … of ellipses … so that he … has a form of bad … dialect in the book grew old fast. Yes, we know Shatner pauses when he acts. Everyone reading the book does. It doesn’t work on paper the way you think it does, not for long stretches.

So I stopped. Because my frustration level was growing at a constant rate. The end.