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* SupernaturalMartialArts: Suruk is already an amazing warrior, but he later learns techniques from an OldMaster, that allowed him to put his hand through a lemming-man's armour and tear out his still beating heart. He also killed another lemming-man by channeling his energies into the lemming-man's body and inducing a heart attack.
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* ThatThingIsNotMyChild: The Vorl, C'neth is initially horrified to find out that the dirty, joss-reeking hippie in front of him, is his daughter. He gets better and later is actually taken with the idea that his daughter is a "solid".
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* HandCannon: Humans don't do man-portable energy weapons much. Instead they use oversized guns such as Smith's Civiliser that he took from Corveau and Dreckitt's Assasinator, which was described as having barrel big enough to rent as living space. The Edenite top leader saw Smith's Civiliser and said that Smith's gun is rather tiny compared to what the Edenites usually carry.
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* HandCannon: Humans don't do man-portable energy weapons much.much (this changes in later books as the war intensifies). Instead they use oversized guns such as Smith's Civiliser that he took from Corveau and Dreckitt's Assasinator, which was described as having barrel big enough to rent as living space. The Edenite top leader saw Smith's Civiliser and said that Smith's gun is rather tiny compared to what the Edenites usually carry.
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* WeaponOfChoice: Smith has his .308 Morgan Plainsman (the book quickly just refers to it as a rifle to keep it short) and his Civiliser, Carveth used to lug a Maxim cannon but this gets dropped for a shotgun as her mainstay, Suruk has his spear and Susan of the Special Operations team is never without her beam-gun.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Carveth as a burping, farty pants gets dropped by the 3rd book. book and her sex-fiend nature gets downplayed significantly. Instead the writer plays up her love of alcohol, her cowardness goes into critical mass and she becomes far more childish with her love of ponies and ice cream.
* DarkerAndEdgier: While still retaining its trademark humour, "End of Empires" is quite eye-opening in how grim things get as its set in the middle of a last-ditch onslaught by the lemming-men on a jungle DeathWorld. The middle third of the book even has its own version of Film/ApocalypseNow.
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* HigherTechSpecies: The Ghast use bio-ships with organic plasma disruptors, while humanity is still stuck with using big guns that wouldn't seem out of place today. It was the Ghast that provided the technology to separate Rhianna's Vord Vorl aspect from her human self.
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* InsistentTerminology: The Martians from H.G Well's War of the Worlds exist in this world, however they prefer to call themselves Aresians. Other than that, they are as destructive and weak to illness as they were in Well's novel.
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* TouchedByVorlons - [[spoiler:Rhianna's]] mother got bonked by the Vorlon Vorl, C'neth. Some of the Vorl's abilities turn out to be hereditary...
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* ArchEnemy: Number 462 and Smith are each others, though 462 understandably hates Smith more than Smith dislikes 462. For 462, every time he encounters Smith, he ends up getting more and more maimed. While for Smith, any time there's a threat to the British Empire, it's inevitable that 462 has a hand in it.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Carveth as a burping, farty pants gets dropped by the 3rd book. Instead the writer plays up her love of alcohol, her cowardness goes into critical mass and she becomes more childish with her love of ponies and ice cream.
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* MoreDakka: Smith fends off three marauding void sharks with a somewhat futuristic Maxim machine gun that has 999 rounds in a single magazine. The Maxim was also used to beat back a Ghast boarding party. Once Smith gets his Morgan Plainsman rifle, Carveth takes up the Maxim and goes wild with it.it (later on the Maxim mysteriously disappears from the series and Carveth gets stuck with a shotgun). For the bad guys side, the Edenites that wear powered armour also carry gatling guns as a standard weapon.
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* ReligionOfEvil: The Edenites took the worst bits of various religions and deliberately rolled them up with fascism to become a fun-hating, misogynistic cult that worships the Great Annihilator (though they are oddly not too racist, given their allying with the Ghast and Lemming men).
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* SuperSoldier: The Edenites tried to make a batch of them using technology traded from the Ghast. Yeah the end result were 8-feet tall mountains of muscles, unfortunately these "ogres" were dumb as they were strong.
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* SteamPunk: The British Space Empire took a huge conscious reversion, as a nod to their industrial empire in the 1800s they've gone back to smokestacks and boilers. When London is introduced, chimneys and chimney sweeps have made a come-back. Even their gigantic war robots get chimneys! The Empire has also reverted back to the morality of Victoria, including its low-key to blatant discrimination towards non-British and attitudes towards sexuality.
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* TouchedByVorlons - [[spoiler:Rhianna's]] mother got bonked by the Vorlon C'neth. Some of the Vorlons turn out to be hereditary...
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* SingleTargetSexuality: Smith has eyes only for Rhianna. All other women are something of a turn-off for him and he's got no interest in dudes.
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* AlienInvasionAlienInvasion: The British Space Empire is under threat from the Ghasts and lemming men.
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* BizarreAlienBiologyBizarreAlienBiology: The Morlocks have their excretory and digestive system in their heads as well as a spare liver, Morlocks also produce spawn by spitting out a sludge of gunk that grow into froglike creatures.
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* MoreDakka: Smith fends off three marauding void sharks with a somewhat futuristic Maxim machine gun.gun that has 999 rounds in a single magazine. The Maxim was also used to beat back a Ghast boarding party. Once Smith gets his Morgan Plainsman rifle, Carveth takes up the Maxim and goes wild with it. For the bad guys side, the Edenites that wear powered armour also carry gatling guns as a standard weapon.
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* OurOrcsAreDifferent: The Morlocks are large and green (but skinny), they have big tusks and like collecting skulls, and in a shoutout to TabletopGame/Warhammer40000, they believe that painting a ship red makes it goes faster.
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* OurOrcsAreDifferent: The Morlocks practically scream out that they're Orcs. They are large large, strong and green (but skinny), they have big tusks and like collecting skulls, and in a shoutout to TabletopGame/Warhammer40000, they believe that painting a ship red makes it goes faster.
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* WithThisHerring: For such an important mission, Captain Smith was given an unarmed rustbucket of a ship and a couple of guns in a locker.
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* WithThisHerring: For such an important mission, Captain Smith was given an unarmed rustbucket of a ship and a couple of guns in a locker.locker (a Maxim machine gun which acts like the smartgun from Movie/{{Aliens}}, a shotgun and a service revolver).
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* PoweredArmor: The Edenites have very advanced tech, and in a shoutout to Literature/StarshipTroopers, they attack the Imperials with powered armour that is capable of tremendous leaps. Unfortunately their armour is vulnerable to emp and Smith's rifle can shoot through bank vaults.
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* TeensAreMonsters: A shoutout to Literature/ClockworkOrange, the crew end up on planet Drogon - a shithole of a world where teenage gangs go around in bowler hats, speaking a Russian/English hybrid, drinking narcotic laced milk and violently assaulting people. Unfortunately for one gang, they decided to attack Smith and Suruk. Not all of the gang died quickly as the heroes needed info.
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* ManInTheMachine: After being reduced to a head and a bladder, Gilead had been placed in a robot body, making him a near full-body cyborg. But because of issues such as ghost sensations (including trying to scratch an itch in a non-existent crotch), Gilead is not a happy camper and really wants to make Smith and friends suffer.
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*{{Gasshole}}: Made to be occasionally crude as part of the fetishized programming suite hardwired into her, Carveth is going to burp or fart every so often per book.
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* HartmanHips: Number 462 of the Ghasts has a really big bottom, bottom (well...462 is a giant antman), this is something that Smith notices.notices and taunts him about.
* NoSell: Tea with milk, is such an incredible drink that it enabled Smith to withstand an concerted mental attack from a group of psychic children. Powered by tea, Smith's moral fiber shot through the roof and shut down the voices in his head.
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* PowerUpFood: Why is the British Space Empire invincible? It's because of tea with a spot of milk in it. Near the beginning of Book 2, the analytical simulant mentions that tea raises moral fiber. And moral fiber is 30% more effective at raising fighting prowess than numerical superiority, good genes, fanaticism and etc.
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* PowerUpFood: Why is the British Space Empire invincible? It's because of tea with a spot of milk in it. Near the beginning of Book 2, the analytical simulant mentions that tea raises moral fiber. And moral fiber is 30% more effective at raising fighting prowess than numerical superiority, good genes, fanaticism and etc.
etc. The Ghasts try to power themselves up with it, but fail despite their numerous experiments (including an attempt to mate with tea bags).
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Suruk knocks out some mercenaries threatening Carveth, with a ''foot-long, black plastic club that's rounded at the top and gently vibrates to give his hand a nice massage''. Carveth quickly takes back her vibrator.
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* HartmanHips: Number462 Number 462 of the Ghasts has a really big bottom, this is something that Smith notices.notices.
* HigherTechSpecies: The Ghast use bio-ships with organic plasma disruptors, while humanity is still stuck with using big guns that wouldn't seem out of place today. It was the Ghast that provided the technology to separate Rhianna's Vord aspect from her human self.
* HigherTechSpecies: The Ghast use bio-ships with organic plasma disruptors, while humanity is still stuck with using big guns that wouldn't seem out of place today. It was the Ghast that provided the technology to separate Rhianna's Vord aspect from her human self.
* ItWasAGift: After Smith and crew liberate Paradis from Corveau, Francois tells Smith to keep the .308 Morgan Plainsman that he lent Smith. With Corveau gone, Francois no longer needs a gun like that and feels Smith will make better use of it.
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* TakeUpMySword: After Smith and crew liberate Paradis from Corveau, Francois tells Smith to keep the .308 Morgan Plainsman that he lent Smith. With Corveau gone, Francois no longer needs a gun like that and feels Smith will make better use of it.
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* BerserkButton: The normally cowardly Carveth will lose it, if anyone calls her fat.
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* ArmAndALeg: When the evil Gilead is shot by Smith, the doctors could only save his head and his bladder.
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* BattleTrophy: After killing planetary crimeboss Corveau, Smith takes the guy's Civiliser (a massive revolver that shoots .45 hypervelocity rounds). This nicely supplements the heroes' somewhat meager arsenal.
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* TakeUpMySword: After Smith and crew liberate Paradis from Corveau, Francois tells Smith to keep the .308 Morgan Plainsman that he lent Smith. With Corveau gone, Francois no longer needs a gun like that and feels Smith will make better use of it.
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* MsFanService: Averted with Carveth. When Smith found out that Carveth was made as a custom-built sexbot, he was surprised given that she looks like a small, thin woman of 30 who's only pretty in plain way. Carveth then explains the reason why she's not busty goddess is that her owner is an extremely nasty pervert with very specific fetishes, so her specs came from a questionaire he did.
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* MsFanService: Averted with Carveth. When Smith found out that Carveth was made as a custom-built sexbot, he was surprised given that she looks like a small, thin woman of 30 who's only pretty in a plain way. Carveth then explains the reason why she's not a busty goddess is that her owner is an extremely nasty pervert with very specific fetishes, so and her design specs came from a questionaire he did.filled out.
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* MsFanService: Averted with Carveth. When Smith found out that Carveth was made as a custom-built sexbot, he was surprised given that she looks like a small, thin woman of 30 who's only pretty in plain way. Carveth then explains the reason why she's not busty goddess is that her owner is an extremely nasty pervert with very specific fetishes, so her specs came from a questionaire he did.
* MoreDakka: Smith fends off three marauding void sharks with a somewhat futuristic Maxim machine gun. The Maxim was also used to beat back a Ghast boarding party.
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* {{Sexbot}}: Carveth is a custom-built sex toy. As such she's hardwired to occasionally lapse into talking innuendo and be crude.
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* WithThisHerring: For such an important mission, Captain Smith was given an unarmed rustbucket of a ship and a couple of guns in a locker.
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A Man Is Not A Virgin is no longer a trope.
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* AManIsNotAVirgin: Subverted. Smith isn't just a virgin [[spoiler: at least until partway through God Emperor of Didcot]], he's downright ''virginal''.
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* CopycatCover: It's very similar to the British covers of the {{Flashman}} novels.
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* CopycatCover: It's very similar to the British covers of the {{Flashman}} {{Literature/Flashman}} novels.
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Space Captain Smith (The chronicles of Isambard Smith Vol. 1) is the debut novel of English author Toby Frost, and is a science-fiction comedy. It has been followed by two sequels- ''God Emperor of Didcot'' and ''Wrath of the Lemming Men''.
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Space Captain Smith (The chronicles of Isambard Smith Vol. 1) is the debut novel of English author Toby Frost, and is a science-fiction comedy. It has been followed by two four sequels- ''God Emperor of Didcot'' and Didcot'', ''Wrath of the Lemming Men''.Men'', ''A Game of Battleships'' and ''End of Empires''.
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** Given the relatively benign impact of the British Space Empire compared to what you get at the hands of the Ghasts, New Eden and the Lemming Men, it's hard for him ''not'' to be idealistic about them.
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Isambard Smith is the square-jawed, courageous and somewhat dim new commander of the clapped out, battle damaged light freighter John Pym, destined to take on the alien threat because nobody else is available. Together with his bold crew- a skull collecting alien lunatic and an android pilot who is actually an escaped sex toy (and her pet hamster: Gerald)- he must collect new-age herbalist Rhianna Mitchell from the laid back New Francisco orbiter and bring her back to safety in the empire. Straightforward enough- except the Ghast want her too. If he is to get back to blighty alive, Smith must defeat void sharks, a universe-weary android assassin and John Gilead, psychopathic naval officer from the fanatically religious Republic of New Eden before facing his greatest enemy: a ruthless alien warlord with a very large behind...
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Space Captain Smith (The chronicles of Isambard Smith Vol. 1) is the debut novel of English author Toby Frost, and is a science-fiction comedy. It has been followed by two sequels- ''God Emperor of Didcot'' and ''Wrath of the Lemming men''.
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Isambard Smith is the square-jawed, courageous and somewhat dim new commander of the clapped out, battle damaged light freighter John Pym, destined to take on the alien threat because nobody else is available. Together with his bold crew- a skull collecting alien lunatic and an android pilot who is actually an escaped sex toy (and her pet hamster: Gerald)- he must collect new-age herbalist Rhianna Mitchell from the laid back New Francisco orbiter and bring her back to safety in the empire.British Space Empire. Straightforward enough- except the Ghast want her too. If he is to get back to blighty Blighty alive, Smith must defeat void sharks, a universe-weary android assassin and John Gilead, psychopathic naval officer from the fanatically religious Republic of New Eden before facing his greatest enemy: a ruthless alien warlord with a very large behind...
Space Captain Smith (The chronicles of Isambard Smith Vol. 1) is the debut novel of English author Toby Frost, and is a science-fiction comedy. It has been followed by two sequels- ''God Emperor of Didcot'' and ''Wrath of the Lemmingmen''.Men''.
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->"A ship!" Smith sprang up. "That's excellent! Will there be action, and danger?"
->"There'll be hippies. Will that do?"
->"Sir, I'll take the risk."
-->-- ''Isambard and Mr. Kahn'', "Space Captain Smith"
Isambard Smith is the square-jawed, courageous and somewhat dim new commander of the clapped out, battle damaged light freighter John Pym, destined to take on the alien threat because nobody else is available. Together with his bold crew- a skull collecting alien lunatic and an android pilot who is actually an escaped sex toy (and her pet hamster: Gerald)- he must collect new-age herbalist Rhianna Mitchell from the laid back New Francisco orbiter and bring her back to safety in the empire. Straightforward enough- except the Ghast want her too. If he is to get back to blighty alive, Smith must defeat void sharks, a universe-weary android assassin and John Gilead, psychopathic naval officer from the fanatically religious Republic of New Eden before facing his greatest enemy: a ruthless alien warlord with a very large behind...
Space Captain Smith (The chronicles of Isambard Smith Vol. 1) is the debut novel of English author Toby Frost, and is a science-fiction comedy. It has been followed by two sequels- ''God Emperor of Didcot'' and ''Wrath of the Lemming men''.
There are also three short stories (all {{Christmas Episode}}s) ''When Slay Bells Ring'', ''The Celery an the Ivy'' and ''A Fairytale of New Dorchester'', which are available as free downloads from the [[http://spacecaptainsmith.com Space Captain Smith]] website. The first contains a significant (in some eyes) spoiler for ''God Emperor of Didcot''.
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* AManIsNotAVirgin: Subverted. Smith isn't just a virgin [[spoiler: at least until partway through God Emperor of Didcot]], he's downright ''virginal''.
* AlienInvasion
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: The British 'civilized' aliens, making them learn English.
* AllGirlsLikePonies: Carveth has an almost child-like obsession with ponies. This may be excused by the fact that she's only [[ArtificialHuman two years old]].
* AncientConspiracy: The Vhorl
* AncientTradition: Suruk's slaying and head collecting.
* ArtificialHuman Pollyanna R Carveth, the sexbot on the run. Prefers the term Person of Artificial Heritage
* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler: Smith needs one of these after Number 8 bites off his right arm. He gets a proper new one grown for him, though]]
* TheBattlestar: Dreadnoughts
* BigDamnHeroes: Smith's return to New Luton with Wainscott's team and [[spoiler:the Vorl]].
* BizarreAlienBiology
* BloodyHilarious: Suruk in general, and the heads he keeps as trophies on his mantle.
* TheBridge: Subverted- the John Pym barely has room for a two-seat cockpit.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: Subverted. In ''Wrath Of The Lemming Men'', Smith punches Number 8, who eats his arm. [[spoiler: Turns out that Smith had a live grenade in that hand.]]
* TheCaptain: Smith, obviously
* CasualInterstellarTravel: Although distances are never stated, it is made clear that travel between star systems takes only hours at best, but sometimes stretched into days.
* CasualKink: After many stoned conversations with Rhianna, Carveth tells Smith that he should 'watch his arse around a woman like her'. In context, the implications are...interesting.
* CoolStarship: Subverted - the ''John Pym'' is very old and very battered, held together with duct tape and string, but she is also one of the fastest starships in the known galaxy - ''in a straight line'' - thanks to a massive non standard engine. Not so good at cornering though.
* CopycatCover: It's very similar to the British covers of the {{Flashman}} novels.
* EgomaniacHunter: Suruk the slayer.
* GranolaGirl: Rhianna Mitchell, although her home world New Francisco is a whole planet of these.
* InsectoidAliens: The Ghast.
* LivingShip: The Ghast ships seem to be made of living tissue, but are not apparently sentient. They are chock-full of {{Squick}}, though; the airlocks are ''sphincters.'' '''Complete with sucking noises!'''
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: As its name suggests, the Democratic Republic of New Eden is a hellish theocratic tyranny.
** The Greater Galactic Happiness, Friendship and Co-operation Collective is run by demented sadistic lemming men intent on conquest.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The Morlocks. Suruk see the missions as holidays and opportunities to add to his collection of skulls. He never seems to use guns preferring to use his many blades and ancestral spear. Subverted with Morlock speech. In English they sound like the typical ProudWarriorRaceGuy, but in Asur'ah they are, [[ValleyGirl like, way more expressive, y'know?]]
* RammingAlwaysWorks - both the Morlocks and the Lemming-men favour this, the former because of their desire to board and engage in hand-to-hand fighting; the latter because of their suicidal tendencies - and their ships are constructed appropriately.
* RetroUniverse / SchizoTech / DaysOfFuturePast : But it's all obviously PlayedForLaughs.
* RobotGirl Carveth (though technically she's [[spoiler:wholly organic, in the flesh versus steel sense of the word - Rhianna is wholly organic in a more philosophical sense]].
* ShoutOut - liberally sprinkled through all three novels, calling everything from Enid Blyton to War of the Worlds, the Chipmunks to Japanese whaling practices ([[spoiler:the space whales "ate the Japanese fleet and passed it off as research")]], and even the Teddy Bears' Picnic.
* SpaceOpera
* SpaceIsAnOcean: With giant sharks in it, too.
* SpotOfTea: In The God Emperor of Didcot, the Ghasts [[spoiler: plan to destroy the tea fields, thus striking a mortal blow to the British Space Empire]].
* StiffUpperLip
* TouchedByVorlons - [[spoiler:Rhianna's]] mother.
* WideEyedIdealist: Smith. Admittedly his idealism is based around how great it is that the British Space Empire stomps on and colonises everyone, but it's idealism.
** Given the relatively benign impact of the British Space Empire compared to what you get at the hands of the Ghasts, New Eden and the Lemming Men, it's hard for him ''not'' to be idealistic about them.
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->"A ship!" Smith sprang up. "That's excellent! Will there be action, and danger?"
->"There'll be hippies. Will that do?"
->"Sir, I'll take the risk."
-->-- ''Isambard and Mr. Kahn'', "Space Captain Smith"
Isambard Smith is the square-jawed, courageous and somewhat dim new commander of the clapped out, battle damaged light freighter John Pym, destined to take on the alien threat because nobody else is available. Together with his bold crew- a skull collecting alien lunatic and an android pilot who is actually an escaped sex toy (and her pet hamster: Gerald)- he must collect new-age herbalist Rhianna Mitchell from the laid back New Francisco orbiter and bring her back to safety in the empire. Straightforward enough- except the Ghast want her too. If he is to get back to blighty alive, Smith must defeat void sharks, a universe-weary android assassin and John Gilead, psychopathic naval officer from the fanatically religious Republic of New Eden before facing his greatest enemy: a ruthless alien warlord with a very large behind...
Space Captain Smith (The chronicles of Isambard Smith Vol. 1) is the debut novel of English author Toby Frost, and is a science-fiction comedy. It has been followed by two sequels- ''God Emperor of Didcot'' and ''Wrath of the Lemming men''.
There are also three short stories (all {{Christmas Episode}}s) ''When Slay Bells Ring'', ''The Celery an the Ivy'' and ''A Fairytale of New Dorchester'', which are available as free downloads from the [[http://spacecaptainsmith.com Space Captain Smith]] website. The first contains a significant (in some eyes) spoiler for ''God Emperor of Didcot''.
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!!Provides Examples Of:
* AManIsNotAVirgin: Subverted. Smith isn't just a virgin [[spoiler: at least until partway through God Emperor of Didcot]], he's downright ''virginal''.
* AlienInvasion
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: The British 'civilized' aliens, making them learn English.
* AllGirlsLikePonies: Carveth has an almost child-like obsession with ponies. This may be excused by the fact that she's only [[ArtificialHuman two years old]].
* AncientConspiracy: The Vhorl
* AncientTradition: Suruk's slaying and head collecting.
* ArtificialHuman Pollyanna R Carveth, the sexbot on the run. Prefers the term Person of Artificial Heritage
* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler: Smith needs one of these after Number 8 bites off his right arm. He gets a proper new one grown for him, though]]
* TheBattlestar: Dreadnoughts
* BigDamnHeroes: Smith's return to New Luton with Wainscott's team and [[spoiler:the Vorl]].
* BizarreAlienBiology
* BloodyHilarious: Suruk in general, and the heads he keeps as trophies on his mantle.
* TheBridge: Subverted- the John Pym barely has room for a two-seat cockpit.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: Subverted. In ''Wrath Of The Lemming Men'', Smith punches Number 8, who eats his arm. [[spoiler: Turns out that Smith had a live grenade in that hand.]]
* TheCaptain: Smith, obviously
* CasualInterstellarTravel: Although distances are never stated, it is made clear that travel between star systems takes only hours at best, but sometimes stretched into days.
* CasualKink: After many stoned conversations with Rhianna, Carveth tells Smith that he should 'watch his arse around a woman like her'. In context, the implications are...interesting.
* CoolStarship: Subverted - the ''John Pym'' is very old and very battered, held together with duct tape and string, but she is also one of the fastest starships in the known galaxy - ''in a straight line'' - thanks to a massive non standard engine. Not so good at cornering though.
* CopycatCover: It's very similar to the British covers of the {{Flashman}} novels.
* EgomaniacHunter: Suruk the slayer.
* GranolaGirl: Rhianna Mitchell, although her home world New Francisco is a whole planet of these.
* InsectoidAliens: The Ghast.
* LivingShip: The Ghast ships seem to be made of living tissue, but are not apparently sentient. They are chock-full of {{Squick}}, though; the airlocks are ''sphincters.'' '''Complete with sucking noises!'''
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: As its name suggests, the Democratic Republic of New Eden is a hellish theocratic tyranny.
** The Greater Galactic Happiness, Friendship and Co-operation Collective is run by demented sadistic lemming men intent on conquest.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The Morlocks. Suruk see the missions as holidays and opportunities to add to his collection of skulls. He never seems to use guns preferring to use his many blades and ancestral spear. Subverted with Morlock speech. In English they sound like the typical ProudWarriorRaceGuy, but in Asur'ah they are, [[ValleyGirl like, way more expressive, y'know?]]
* RammingAlwaysWorks - both the Morlocks and the Lemming-men favour this, the former because of their desire to board and engage in hand-to-hand fighting; the latter because of their suicidal tendencies - and their ships are constructed appropriately.
* RetroUniverse / SchizoTech / DaysOfFuturePast : But it's all obviously PlayedForLaughs.
* RobotGirl Carveth (though technically she's [[spoiler:wholly organic, in the flesh versus steel sense of the word - Rhianna is wholly organic in a more philosophical sense]].
* ShoutOut - liberally sprinkled through all three novels, calling everything from Enid Blyton to War of the Worlds, the Chipmunks to Japanese whaling practices ([[spoiler:the space whales "ate the Japanese fleet and passed it off as research")]], and even the Teddy Bears' Picnic.
* SpaceOpera
* SpaceIsAnOcean: With giant sharks in it, too.
* SpotOfTea: In The God Emperor of Didcot, the Ghasts [[spoiler: plan to destroy the tea fields, thus striking a mortal blow to the British Space Empire]].
* StiffUpperLip
* TouchedByVorlons - [[spoiler:Rhianna's]] mother.
* WideEyedIdealist: Smith. Admittedly his idealism is based around how great it is that the British Space Empire stomps on and colonises everyone, but it's idealism.
** Given the relatively benign impact of the British Space Empire compared to what you get at the hands of the Ghasts, New Eden and the Lemming Men, it's hard for him ''not'' to be idealistic about them.
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