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Very funny debut novel...loaded with goofy characters, daft situations and laugh-out-loud lines. Douglas Adams himself would have relished the surly triceratops who goes on a rampage towards the end. --The Financial Times, 21st January 2012
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When Admiral Skink, an alien-lizard warlord from the planet Swerdlix, is attacked by The Hideous and Unimaginably Vast Comet Creature of Poppledock he faces a certain death...but luckily his underlings have installed the BrainTwizzler 360 Mind Migration SystemTM. This nifty invention safely transfers Skink's mind on to a memory wafer and jettisons it through space to find a suitable temporary "home" until he can be rescued by his fellow Swerdlixians. Unluckily for eleven-year-old Lance Spratley it just so happens that the temporary home for Admiral Skink's mind is his body! And while Skink deals with being trapped in Lance's useless body - it can't even breathe fire! -- Lance is transferred to a virtual waiting room surrounded by the lizard race who seem intent on destroying Earth when they have successfully retrieved Skink. Will Lance ever get his body back? And even if he does will he be able to thwart Admiral Skink and the Swerdlixians plans to invade Earth...
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I bought this book for an eight year old's birthday present, started reading it and couldn't stop laughing! It would make a great film and it is an absolutely hilarious book. A great big alien lizard bully - Admiral Skink - blows himself up and a whizzy piece of advanced alien technology transports his mind into the skull of a ten year of school boy, Lance Spratley, on earth. Meanwhile poor Lance's brain is held in a sort of virtual-waiting room. Both of them have to try to get back home against all odds, and Skink has such a terrible time as a school boy that he decides to destroy the earth as revenge. Mayhem, laughs aplenty and massive amounts of destruction follow - including the reanimating of a dinosaur! I can't think of an 8 to 11 year old boy (or ungirly girl, for that matter) who wouldn't love this.
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Space Lizards Stole My Brain! is a great addition to younger children's fiction - it's bonkers! It's a book that would make a brilliant children's TV show (animated, of course) chronicling the adventures of human Lance Spratley and Swerdlixian lizard ruler Admiral Skink.
This book is all about brain swapping, though it happens through less than usual means. Admiral Skink's starship is destroyed, the Braintwizzler 360 system is fired up and voila, Admiral Skink swaps minds with Lance! Hilarity ensues, of course - Skink doesn't understand the human world and all it's many customs, and Lance just hasn't got a clue what's happened to him and why he's in a strange place surrounded by weird giant lizards. It must all be very traumatising for the poor boy, though preferable to his rather slave-like home life!
There's a lovely clever little pet iguana called Pickles who makes an appearance, as well as a real live Triceratops (eek!), numerous mankind-hating Swerdlixians, an addiction to auction sites and something called an ARGH. Just your run-of-the-mill alien story really... minus the dinosaur, of course!
I think children aged 7+ will really enjoy this, both boys and girls thanks to the two main characters Lance and Tori. And, as if that wasn't enough, Space Lizards Stole My Brain! is also fully illustrated by Pete Williamson! He's my favourite children's illustrator and successfully works his magic on this book. Honestly, I've never seen lizards looking like this. Yikes! Look out for the sequel later in the year, which I believe is called Space Lizards Ate My Sister! Uh-oh!
3.5/5
This book is all about brain swapping, though it happens through less than usual means. Admiral Skink's starship is destroyed, the Braintwizzler 360 system is fired up and voila, Admiral Skink swaps minds with Lance! Hilarity ensues, of course - Skink doesn't understand the human world and all it's many customs, and Lance just hasn't got a clue what's happened to him and why he's in a strange place surrounded by weird giant lizards. It must all be very traumatising for the poor boy, though preferable to his rather slave-like home life!
There's a lovely clever little pet iguana called Pickles who makes an appearance, as well as a real live Triceratops (eek!), numerous mankind-hating Swerdlixians, an addiction to auction sites and something called an ARGH. Just your run-of-the-mill alien story really... minus the dinosaur, of course!
I think children aged 7+ will really enjoy this, both boys and girls thanks to the two main characters Lance and Tori. And, as if that wasn't enough, Space Lizards Stole My Brain! is also fully illustrated by Pete Williamson! He's my favourite children's illustrator and successfully works his magic on this book. Honestly, I've never seen lizards looking like this. Yikes! Look out for the sequel later in the year, which I believe is called Space Lizards Ate My Sister! Uh-oh!
3.5/5
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'Space Lizards Stole My Brain' is a hugely entertaining sci-fi romp for kids. It features a tyrannical cold-hearted (and cold-blooded) warrior lizard called Admiral Skink whose spaceship gets blown up during a battle. Clever technology preserves his mind in a 'memory wafer' which is jetisoned into outer space. His mind is now set to be transferred to the brain of whichever intelligent creature comes along after the memory wafer lands on a habitable planet. Unfortunately for 11-year-old Lance Spratley that just happens to be him.
Lance finds his own mind transported to a virtual reality prison while Admiral Skink gets used to being inside the body of a small, pink-skinned mammal. Skink finds himself having to deal with the horrors of parents, teachers and bullies without the means to blast them into atoms.
He needs to recover the memory wafer in the 'meteorite' now placed in a museum so that he can call for rescue. Meanwhile, Lance is being prodded and questioned by unpleasant reptilians seeking to learn more about humanity so they can conquer the Earth. And if you think Admiral Skink will learn anything about human kindness while trapped in Lance's body, you'll be wrong - once he's free of our planet, he fully intends to have it utterly destroyed. Eek!
There's a bit of peril and plenty of action in 'Space Lizards' but mainly it's a lot of fun. Space Lizards is a funny book - if Douglas Adams had written for kids, it would have been something like this. Lots of crazy alien lifeforms (eg Venom Pandas), witty bits of futuristic technology mixed in with some genuinely clever sci-fi. If you know a 10-year-old (ish) who loves Doctor Who they will adore 'Space Lizards Stole My Brain'.
Lance finds his own mind transported to a virtual reality prison while Admiral Skink gets used to being inside the body of a small, pink-skinned mammal. Skink finds himself having to deal with the horrors of parents, teachers and bullies without the means to blast them into atoms.
He needs to recover the memory wafer in the 'meteorite' now placed in a museum so that he can call for rescue. Meanwhile, Lance is being prodded and questioned by unpleasant reptilians seeking to learn more about humanity so they can conquer the Earth. And if you think Admiral Skink will learn anything about human kindness while trapped in Lance's body, you'll be wrong - once he's free of our planet, he fully intends to have it utterly destroyed. Eek!
There's a bit of peril and plenty of action in 'Space Lizards' but mainly it's a lot of fun. Space Lizards is a funny book - if Douglas Adams had written for kids, it would have been something like this. Lots of crazy alien lifeforms (eg Venom Pandas), witty bits of futuristic technology mixed in with some genuinely clever sci-fi. If you know a 10-year-old (ish) who loves Doctor Who they will adore 'Space Lizards Stole My Brain'.
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