The Red Tape War - Hardcover

Chalker, Jack L.; Resnick, Mike; Effinger, George Alec

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312851510 ISBN 13: 9780312851514

Publisher: Tor Books, 1991

Synopsis

Sixty-seven centuries in the future, a bureaucratic snafu makes Millard Fillmore Pierce the Milky Way's representative to an invasion force from another dimension

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

In designing their book as a round robin, Chalker ( The Return of Nathan Brazil ), Resnick ( Second Contact ) and Effinger ( When Gravity Fails ) seem to have been more interested in presenting the next author with a challenge ("Write your way out of this!") than they were in continuity, plot or character. Millard Fillmore Pierce (most names are pseudo-significant, such as the battleship Mahatma Gandhi, captain Nathan Bolivia) appears in five different guises, each a member of a different species from a different parallel universe; all of them speak English and most of them intend to take over the human Pierce's galaxy. That none succeeds is largely due to red tape: so many forms must be filled out in order even to fire a shot that battleships carry hundreds of bureaucrats to support each soldier. What could have been light entertainment is defeated by the authors' arch, feckless comments to one another--with discussions on writing the book included as part of the book. Only a blindly dedicated fan will be pleased with this collaboration.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0312851510
• ISBN 13: 9780312851514
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244