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This is an inventive and mildly amusing yarn; it's also one of those rambling adventures in which the protagonists continually escape from one predicament straight into another, as Rincewind tends to do in [a:Terry Pratchett 1654 Terry Pratchett https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1235562205p2/1654.jpg]'s Discworld novels.To be honest, the endless series of escapes is not my favourite design for a novel, and having read some of Kurland's other books I was a bit disappointed in this one. Readable enough, but not his best.Apart from the Discworld, the bizarre scenario also slightly reminds me of the [a:Brian Aldiss 8051738 Brian Aldiss https://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-d9f6a4a5badfda0f69e70cc94d962125.png] story, “Legends of Smith's Burst”; although, as far as I remember, the Aldiss story was better.