I read this, but it was so unexceptional, I don't remember a thing about it. ( )

The universe changes on the littlest things. A cheese sandwich can change the world as we know it. When machines start looking for a superior intelligence, a toaster's search leads to a spaceship, 5 retirees, and an alien. Things are always connected to each other. Love the characters, all of them, great premise! ( )

An amazingly pointless book. It starts out with rather strained humor, tries to go to edge-of-the-seat scary stuff without losing the humor (and misses on both sides), grows some moral dilemmas...which end highly anti-climatically. And then a quick sketch of a possibly more interesting story - but only a sketch, and the book ends. Foster has written a lot better books than this, even if I limit it to humorous SF. Overall, yawn. ( )

5 retirees find an old alien spaceship buried on earth. The AI is confused, after 1million years, and turns to them for commands. Also has a story about the AI's of earth leaving their duties and searching for non-human intelligent life.

Funny and light and serving absolutely no purpose beyond a little humor. Good read. ( )

I know Foster can do much better. I don't know why he let this one go out like this. Huge irrelevant info-dumps, and way too much repetitive telling instead of showing.

And the cliches & lazy writing, oh dear. At one point when some of the poo hits the fan we're told He had a gut feeling that his heretofore-lazy day was about to fill up very quickly." Um, really? Or is that supposed to be funny?

I certainly didn't find very much of the book funny. I did fall in love with some of the characters, though, even though they were kinda superficial. Just one thing: isn't the proper nickname for "the Right Honorable Colonel Wesley Follingston-Heath" *Folly* - ?" ( )