Chris reviewed Countersolar! by Richard A. Lupoff
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4 stars
A jolly tale of adventure in a Solar system where the planets and moons are flat with holes through them, and where the laws of physics are those of the Flash Gordon universe: spacecraft can fire cannons without being fired backwards by the recoil, space barnacles infest interplanetary space, and a journey from Earth to Counter-Earth on the other side of the Sun takes a matter of days. It’s peopled by a cast that includes Albert Einstein, Juan and Evita Perón, and Oswald Mosley, and drags in Egyptians-on-the-Moon, flying wings and the Titanic.
A jolly tale of adventure in a Solar system where the planets and moons are flat with holes through them, and where the laws of physics are those of the Flash Gordon universe: spacecraft can fire cannons without being fired backwards by the recoil, space barnacles infest interplanetary space, and a journey from Earth to Counter-Earth on the other side of the Sun takes a matter of days. It’s peopled by a cast that includes Albert Einstein, Juan and Evita Perón, and Oswald Mosley, and drags in Egyptians-on-the-Moon, flying wings and the Titanic.