The car chase with a complete absence of internal logic, even as car chases go: one minute our heroes car can’t outrun a garbage truck, but the next chapter, having been bashed about a bit by said garbage truck, can ‘accelerate with the best of them’, and keep pace with a Mustang. They could do nothing but watch as the hole grew in size, first to the dimensions of a fist, and eventually bigger and bigger until it was half the mass of a man.And then there’s the car chase. Some sentences have no place in a professionally published book.
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However, the flaws remain, and from a writer’s perspective, this book looked a little like it was edited on a Friday afternoon. The action in Merciless is even bigger and faster than in the earlier books, the stakes are global, the climactic battle huge, and the journey to it a great ride. That’s not to say it’s a bad book – on the contrary, Robin Parrish is undoubtedly good at what he does, which is Hollywood blockbuster on the printed page.
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Merciless is volume three of the Dominion Trilogy my reviews of the earlier volumes Relentless and Fearless can be pretty much summed up as ‘flawed page-turners’.Īnd it has to be said that Merciless pretty much follows in the same mould.
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It occurs to me that, as Offworld by Robin Parris h is a science fiction book, I might be expected to contribute something a little more relevant to this tour than a list of obscure pop songs.īut it is an important and popular fact that we do things differently here, and as my offering of relevance I therefore present a review of something entirely different: Merciless, by Robin Parrish. Sorry Corduroy, but there’s no topping this as the ultimate Mini song, better known as The Self Preservation Society, or 'that one off The Italian Job'. Quincy Jones/Don Black: Get a Bloomin' Move On! OK, so one slightly obscure Mini reference slipped in (the Mini was launched as the Austin Seven, for the uneducated), but I could resist the sheer insanity of this track.įinally, a song which was actually about the car, released around the time of the Mini’s 35th birthday, publicised at the event and with an actual Mini!ġ. I have a suspicion that the Mini Horace Andy loves to see young girls in is not one designed by Alec Issigonis, but the song works either way. Spooky ethereal goth music is ideal for anyone who owns a black Mini named after Death’s horse. Keeping up the traditional 7 minutes of electronica per top ten.Įcho and the Bunnymen, denizens of the dark side of 80s pop, wrote this tribute to the Mini for it’s 40th birthday. Christian Fischer & DJ Murphy: Mini Monster Richie Kavanagh: Courtin' In A Mini Carħ.
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Not quite sure what this little electroloungepop number has to do with the greatest car of all time, but it’s pleasant enough, and has a good title.Ĩ. It is certainly Norwegian however, and has a good title. I have to put this at the bottom of the Top Ten because I’ve never heard it, and it may well be rubbish. However, it turns out that if you look deep enough into the obscure, foreign and just plain daft corners of popular music, there are at least 10 more directly Mini related songs. I could have gone the generic motoring songs route ( Driving In My Carby Madness, for example) I could have played cheesy word play games ( I Want That Minby Debbie Harry) or I could have picked some really obscure Mini references ( British Racing Green being both a popular Mini colour and a sublime piece of pop songery by Black Box Recorder). There were a couple of ways I could have approached this Top Ten.