The First Completely Electronic Robot and Science Fiction Limerick Book

by Peter Salisbury

Is it possible to tell a tall tale in as few as thirty words? That would require a limerick, a five-line rhyming cartoon in words. In this case fifty-three tiny capsule science fiction stories to make you smile.A hot little androidal missWho jets off her steam with a hissIs made out of junkAnd is very steam punkSo she's much too risky to kiss.The book is divided into The Boys, The Girls, Medical Advances, Aliens, Space, The Law, Military Robots, Linguistics, Aliens, and Steam Power.Also the first episode in The Old Store SF anthology, and the first chapters from SF novels Passengers to Sentience and Passengers to Zeta Nine by the same author.

Genres: Poetry, Fiction

70 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 11, 2009

Reviews

[Julie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Giant MEH. Just wasn't that amusing to me, and I love well-written limericks so I know it wasn't the format.

[Lindsay · Rating 3 out of 5]

I never realised that there could be so many limericks about robots. Admittedly some of them kind of lost the limerick rhythm, but overall I'm pretty amazed at the authors creativity.

[Jo · Rating 1 out of 5]

A funny read.