SuitabookClose encounters of the nerd kind
Jeff Miller
- Reading
- If this is your first Nerdy Dozen book, consider starting together and briefly tracking the returning characters; then let the reader take the lead through the comic action.
- Themes
- Leadership amid comic space peril: Neil and his crew face a stolen spacecraft, an asteroid threat and a rescue mission; Neil also befriends a hostile chimp. The book presents this favourably.
- Comic space-adventure structure: The crew's mission moves through space junk to an orbiting settlement and Mars, with a double rescue and frequent banter. The story is presented as a space farce, using silly antics and fast-moving adventure rather than credible astrophysics.
- Worth knowing
- The plot includes a threat to Earth and a dramatic rescue, but the comic tone and silly antics sit alongside these high-stakes events.