If you've ever wanted a Flash Gordon style serial about a powerful, almost godlike invader destroying Earth and leaving a handful of people to pick up the wreckage, the Tales from the Dream Nebula series might be just what you wanted. In this installment, interplanetary truckers Winston and Bubby find themselves crashing with their new patrons, the Junkers, while their damaged ship is repaired.
While there, the two get shown around the estate and reach the mail room just as a suspicious package is delivered. The package turns out to be a colony of terrifying, flesh eating monsters. Hooray! From there our heroes have to fight a desperate, running battle with creatures they barely understand in an attempt to save their hides and hopefully keep their new patron alive as well. There's a lot of inventive thinking and well paced action in this story.
The biggest appeal to me in The Waking Nightmares is the tricky task of monster slaying. Winston, Bubby and the others have to keep their wits about them to beat the creatures and I find that a lot of fun. The action is also clear and easy to follow, in spite of how chaotic it is. That's a real achievement in this kinds of fast paced, action adventure stories and is another part of what I really liked about book.
Also impressive is how well I felt I knew Winston after the tale was done. There are several parts of the story where previous events in his life were referenced and each time they came up I had a pretty good idea how those events shaped him, even if I didn't know what the events themselves were. That's slick work right there. On one occasion I felt like having a little more context about what those events actually were would have helped me understand a moment better but, outside of that, I feel like Boncher hit a really good balance point in hinting at the past and pushing his story forward. If you want a swashbuckling scifi story to sink your teeth into, this might be just what the doctor ordered.
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