Beware of the Brain Sharpeners

Mr. Browser #5

by Philip Curtis

Genres: Middle Grade

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

UK teacher and author who is best known for the Mr Browser sequence of Young Adult sf novels, beginning with Mr Browser and the Brain Sharpeners (1979; vt Invasion of the Brain Sharpeners 1981), which comically, though sometimes pedantically, engage teachers and others with various challenges, some of them instigated by Aliens. The eponymous villains of Mr Browser and the Space Maggots (1989) are for instance responsible for the environmental deterioration of planet Earth towards the end of the twentieth century.
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Reviews

[Derelict Space Sheep]

An underwhelming instalment. The Brain Sharpeners, rather than posing some insidious threat, now play the role of conscientious anti-nuclear interventionists. Their plan is gratuitous and the abducted students have no agency whatsoever. Curtis employs a jocose prose style devoid of actual humour.