Quirky and unusual with a dash of humour. I enjoyed this rather strange re-examination of the relationship between dog and man ;)

I have to be honest on this one and say it isn’t written well enough for me to see it out. The plot sounds amusing but the writing gets in the way. Here’s an example: multiple quoted phrases in a single page. Some are recognizable, others are not, and the effect is not good. Maybe a good editorial scrub would help.

R. Gary Raham has a wonderful ability to recognize the absurd in human behavior and project those habits and foibles onto an alien culture, the three-segmented wormlike intelligent beings from Jadderbad. A post-apocalyptic earth is slow to recover, even though artificial intelligence and the ability to preserve the intelligence, and perhaps the soul, of the culture's great minds was well advanced. When one of those great minds is hijacked and kept on ice (figuratively speaking) against his will, it turns out to be a lifesaver for the current primitive occupants of Earth when the Jadderbadians stop by in search of a new home.. The parallels and differences between Earth's inhabitants and the Jadderbadians provide lots of opportunities for Raham to display his sense of humor while building tension toward an uncertain end. I highly recommend this novel for the author's imaginative world building, the sly references and metaphors throughout, and the humor.