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Title	:	NGLND XPX
Author	:	Ian Hutson
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 114 pages
Published	:	October 11th 2013 by The Diesel-Electric Elephant Company
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Short Stories. Humor. European Literature. British Literature

NGLND XPX

Ian Hutson

Kindle Edition | Pages: 114 pages

Rating: 4.49 | 127 Users | 18 Reviews

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NGLND XPX was written to grab you by the ankle and drag you screaming into a world of funny and not so funny scifi-ish fiction, a soupcon of some dashed fine adventure and a spot of Ealing-esque farce.

Rub shoulders with robots carrying teddy bears issuing tablets of Commandments to chaps wandering out of the desert. Squirm in a grandstand seat during an Industrial Revolution completely re-written just to see the new-fangled steam trains running over well-intentioned children (no real harm done). Recognise your neighbours - polite English zombies coping with the dystopian hell of a socialist victory in the General Election. Man up, madam, and do your OAP National Service during the pensioner wars with an insect species. Watch in awe and not some little discomfort as Queen Elizabeth does the dishes for Europe and the Ministry of Defence quietly saves the world from a rogue comet.

No caricature is left unused. The science in the fiction is quite splendidly silly. This is a book to be read with tongue in cheek, preferably your own tongue and one of your own face cheeks unless you are very limber. The characters are as deep as summer puddles and the plots are as complicated as two planks of wood. Reality leaves the room on page one and farce enters just one chapter later. As literary feasts go this book is a paper bag of humbugs. It is the most fun that you can have with a librarian in the room without getting your ticket suspended.

The title NGLND XPX is a text message nod to Admiral Nelson’s splendidly rousing signal, sent just as a bit of a rumble that we now call The Battle of Trafalgar was about to begin in 1805 - ‘England expects that every man will do his duty.’ Admiral Nelson appears nowhere in this book.

The contents:

* The Model-T Virgin
* Begging your pardon, my lord, but Cook’s been eaten again
* Robots knitting with rubber needles
* Je pense it’s all going very bien
* Footloose, en pas de basque
* iG-Zero-D
* In which Mr Cadwallader shampoos his parrot in the rain using some very dated popular science
* Diary of a National Service chap
* Blood-curdling screams and the Whitworth screw-thread
* The Day the Earth took tea.

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I found this a bit hit and miss. The author definitely has a distinctive style but I thought the wordplay often got in the way of the satire and the story. There are some gems here nonetheless. The one about the comet was my favourite...

Within these pages are old people in space, conscripted into the English military (and we have no idea how we're ever going to get the universe to smell fresh and clean again)Ian's imagination and wonderful facility for language are a real delight!!!Great British humor. Fun Fun !!! to read

Very unusual.

When science fiction meets English farce, you know you are in for a treat.A wonderful mix of Terry Pratchett and John Cleese, this will delight all lovers of the Goons and Monty Python.****Flexing English Muscles First off, I must say that no one utilizes the English language quite like Ian Hutson does. NO one. His NGLND XPX, a unique, delightfully witty blend of short stories displays an array of creative characters and plots that, in turn, causes one to giggle profusely while shaking a shock-and-awed head at the scope of each turn of phrase. With the insightful political satire of George Orwell, the dark fantasy of Roahl Dahl, the mechanical know-how of Phillip K. Dick, and

A friend took notice of my blue mood and loaned me a copy of NGLND XPX. I absolutely loved this collection of laugh out loud short stories. It gave me an amusing escape from lifes problems. I recommend it!

I have been dying to read to this book for a long time and it did not disappoint!! Ian Hutson in his eccentric, highly intelligent and "madder than the mad hatter" humour, delivered ten stories reminiscent of the narration of Dr. Suez combined with the eloquent high English of Jane Austin novels in tales so over-the-top satirical, off-the-rocker funny (literally) and sometimes ironic that you can not help but love his work! He has a paradoxical "go" at England, some Political figures and famous