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Cosmic

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Liam is a devout World of Warcraft player (he has a level 40 avatar) and uses his "knowledge" of World of Warcraft to get out of sticky situations in the bizarre new world he has been sucked into, the situation of being stranded in outerspace 239,000 miles from home.

Cottrell Bryce owes a lot to Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and I say this in the best way possible.So that suddenly you hear yourself repeating your father’s hackneyed phrases, feel entirely out of your depth and long to be the child you are really? Frank Cottrell- Boyce imbues this wildly funny and imaginative story with great dashes of pathos and philosophy. What if you’re lucky enough to win but learn that the competition is for four children and you’ve posed as an adult?

This edition of Cosmic includes bonus material and discussion questions from Frank Cottrell Boyce and features fantastic cover artwork from Steven Lenton. Other reviewers have said it's a better book than Cosmic - considering how much I enjoyed this, perhaps I should read Millions too. They have a good solid appreciation of that feeling of awe and fear we have sometimes when we gaze up at the moon. When the opportunity comes up for Liam to use his height to his advantage, he manages to get himself on a rocket into space! These jumps between past and the present day weren’t too difficult to follow and definitely made the book more engaging.

Liam has to pose as a dad to his slightly younger (by a few months) friend during the trip, and his trials and tribulations as a "parent" are often hilarious. That definitely helped to keep engagement with the story – I often found myself wanting to skip forward a bit to find out how they arrived on a spaceship spiralling out of control. But he is still a twelve year-old and, in a manner reminiscent of Josh Baskin (Tom Hanks' character in the movie Big), we repeatedly experience Liam's being thrust into the role of an adult who frequently has more of a child-like spirit than any of the "normal" kids around him. Since he looks about thirty, Liam and his classmate Florida have great fun doing things that kids can only do with adult supervision - until his dad, a taxi driver, catches him about to test drive a Porsche. He just reacts to situations like a child would want to and the result is sometimes funny, sometimes disastrous.

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