Scifi thriller/spaceopera, awakened astronaut, mad scientist on cover
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This is a pulpy sci-fi novel, written probably late 80s/early 90s, that I got from my local library in England in the early 90s. certainly no masterpiece, it's just stuck in my head as something to find again for nostalgia.
The cover of the book was a graphic-novel style illustration. It showed a first-person perspective view, where you, the viewer, saw a stereotypical “mad scientist” type guy close to you and about to open your forehead up with a small handheld circular-saw/ electric surgeons’ saw. I think there was blood flying. the scientist guy was laughing, maniacally, as per usual in this kind of situation. Think he had some kind of device or light attached to his head.
The story was from the perspective of a sleazy and/or pathetic spacebound smuggler/trader (more Harry Mudd than Han Solo) who had a talking spaceship. The big news around the galaxy was the discovery of a frozen astronaut from the 20th century, who had been woken up to gain celebrity as a curio. A female journalist was trying to get the story on the astronaut. Somehow these three ended up in a situation together. It involved furry humanoid alien creatures like bears. The journalist and the astronaut end up getting together. The smuggler guy lusted after the journalist, but ended up with a furry alien. Like I say, this was probably rubbish, but it’s whatever the book-memory version of an ear-worm is. I really probably shouldn’t have read this at 12 years old.
The cover of the book was a graphic-novel style illustration. It showed a first-person perspective view, where you, the viewer, saw a stereotypical “mad scientist” type guy close to you and about to open your forehead up with a small handheld circular-saw/ electric surgeons’ saw. I think there was blood flying. the scientist guy was laughing, maniacally, as per usual in this kind of situation. Think he had some kind of device or light attached to his head.
The story was from the perspective of a sleazy and/or pathetic spacebound smuggler/trader (more Harry Mudd than Han Solo) who had a talking spaceship. The big news around the galaxy was the discovery of a frozen astronaut from the 20th century, who had been woken up to gain celebrity as a curio. A female journalist was trying to get the story on the astronaut. Somehow these three ended up in a situation together. It involved furry humanoid alien creatures like bears. The journalist and the astronaut end up getting together. The smuggler guy lusted after the journalist, but ended up with a furry alien. Like I say, this was probably rubbish, but it’s whatever the book-memory version of an ear-worm is. I really probably shouldn’t have read this at 12 years old.
