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Basically Mike Hammer doing a time twist with plenty of humor. Short & fun.
Misogynistic, racist, derivative trash.
Awesome 70's old-school pulp sci-fi. Held up well since I originally read it in the mid-70s.
Hammett re-written by Douglas Adams. A completely unnecessary and very silly book. Exactly what I needed.
Warning: this book is crazy.Ignore the idiot reviewers calling this book racist. They're the kind of immature idiots who call everything racist. There is nothing racist in this book. It just so happens that one of the main characters, Dr Umani, a body swapping scientist gets to inhabit the body of a black man. So what? He also inhabits the body of a drunken Irishman, a Cherokee Indian, and a giraffe with a talking head! I'm not joking. The book is weird. The PI, Sam, our "hero", battles througho...
Seriously one of the stupidest books I have ever encountered. The "homage" to the pulpy noir fiction of Hammett and Chandler comes across as lampooning, and the diolague seems written by a racist twelve year old.I was ready for a fun read, which I knew would be stupid and pulpy, but this was just...well, stupid.Dumb stupid.not fun stupid.
Space for Hire is a book that grab you by the hooves and drags you through adventure and randomness.
The Good: Not much. Some of the ways in which Nolan incorporates inter-dimensional and time travel are amusing.The Bad: Failed absurdist farces like this one really demonstrate just how good Douglas Adams was. Space for Hire is neither funny, cutting-edge science fiction, nor an intriguing mystery. As an homage to the hard boiled genre it is one of the worst collections of cliche ever assembled. The episodic structure and "anything goes" humor quickly become tiresome. Were this a better book, th...
Definitely a sexist, offensive product of it time. Few amusements, Ships names President Agnew and President Reagan. This was published in 1972 so who knew Nolan was able to see the future? (At least half of it)
Not a bad book, just not a great book. Lots of fun silliness with a good "hard boiled" detective story feel to it. Lots of mentions of sex, so not for children or immature teenagers. Didn't care for the ending. If you are looking for something goofy and like psuedo science, then you will probably enjoy this book. Otherwise, look elsewhere.
Wow! I'll say one thing for this book...it keeps moving! Makes me think of what would happen if Dirk Gently and Arthur Dent had a child, but that would be extremely insulting to the genius of Douglas Adams. If you want to be offended early-1970s style, check out this book by the CO-author of Logan's Run. Be sure to read to the end or you'll miss the best part...the Lake of Desire!
Film noir style detective updated to the space age... quite entertaining
Truth be told I liked this alot. Even after reading all the negative reviews I fully enjoyed this short 1971 sci-fi novel. Getting into a mind state of an early 70's teenage boy would've helped a lot more but even without that I got some pleasure from this. Every stereotypical "macho space" idea is explored here, at length, and I can see why people hated it. I'm not saying that I'm going to go search out the rest of this series but I'm not upset I read this. Would I recommend this to a friend? M...
An outlandish assortment of crazy SciFi characters involved in a futuristic murder mystery that imagines what would it be like if the classic film noir detective Sam Spade worked the Galaxy. A good read.
Quite possibly the worst book I've ever read.If the Big Book of Ethnic Slurs, a rape "joke" and a muddy, confused story were to be fused into 174 pages of brain-damaging dreck, this is what you would get.The only positive thing I can say about Space For Hire is that since it's cold out I can use it for kindling.
Taking on the case //Violent worlds and timelines //Girls' winking nipples
