Would you read this book?

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....If I ever get it finished, that is.

It is a fantasy satire. Centred around a story of exploration and discovery, it follows the life of ship's captain Jose Alfonso, and his first mate, Jesus H Carreras, who has an interesting amalgam of speech impediments.

The ship, Feckless but Reckless, sets sail in search of a shortcut to the faraway land of Nearby, where they hope to trade precious Mininovan gold for spices. Something very big and squelchy stands in their way, along with something a bit more dangerous that has teeth and an aversion to silver crucifixes.

Meanwhile, the Gods have hired a new overseer, who seems remarkably good at His job.

There are a lot of parodies involved, from Christopher Columbus, to religion, TV, music and general life. The majority of the Gods are basically personifications of immaterial things (like the Death character from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, who has an equivalent in this story), so the reader can expect some clever wordplay involving them.

However, it's set in the past, before Ameerkat was discovered, so Misery only has a slight crush on Company, Fate hasn't yet forgiven for Curiosity after He found His cat had been involved in a messy altercation with a warrior's spear, and Disease is still pulling doubles because Progress is on holiday. In other words, it's a long time ago.

Based on this short description, a good read, or annihilation of fiction?

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Reminds me a bit of the Fovean Chronicles.

It sounds like it could be good, but I find the satire kills it for me. I guess I'm more into plain ordinary scifi/fantasy epics.

I love sci fi and I love adventure. But I also need a bit of romance so I am probably not your target audience! I am working on books as well!

Yeah, I'd check it out. Sounds suitably strange enough to interest me.

Yeah, sounds awesome.

Still a little rough around the edges, but it sounds like a clever and unique enough premise, somewhat similar to Hitchhiker's. I've always enjoyed satires of entire genres and multiple genres at once in particular. In particular, I think the concept you have of Gods in this work has a lot of potential; I'd focus on developing that one for supplying the story's overtones and themes... Imagine a satirized version of American Gods (which is already a parody in many ways as it is). Then again, that's just me, and you might be more interested in simply exemplifying fantasy stereotypes.

Overall, I think this idea has a lot of interesting potential; I'm interested in seeing your work as it progresses.

Reminds me of Terry Pratchett...

I would give it a try.

Sounds like a good read. I can imagine this as an anime for some reason. Maybe it's because of the names; they have a tone of livliness in the story so far. Of course, this is my opinion.

sounds interesting. always up for a good satire. the faraway land of nearby...sounds like something i'd concoct.

Slightly remisncent of elements of Jasper FForde's books (well, the Thursday Next and Nursery Crimes ones)...you might want to check them out (Terry Pratchett is apparently also a Fforde fan). Seeing as I like parody, I would be interested