dragon and chips: omnibus one, The Complete First Trilogy

Written by Simon Haynes

Narrated by Graeme Hague

All three books in the first Dragon and Chips trilogy in a single omnibus edition.

Tasty, fire-breathing dragons. Angry sea serpents. Sea battles, land battles, assassins, and more.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Author's Republic
• Release date: Jul 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9781982764272

Simon Haynes

Simon Haynes lives in Western Australia, where he divides his time between herding deadly spiders, dodging drop bears, and making up wildly inaccurate sentences like this one.By day he's an author. By night he's also an author.He loves wry, dry humour, and his hobbies include daringly inserting the letter U into words where -- in some parts of the world at least -- this simply isn't the done thing.As for his genre-spanning novels, they include epic fantasy (with robots), scifi comedy (also with robots), middle grade humour (featuring robots AND the wanton use of the letter U), as well as a series of historical mystery novels set in 1870's London. (No, of course there aren't robots in those. He's not completely out of his mind.)When he's not writing Simon is usually renovating his house, sim-racing online, using twitter (@spacejock), gardening, tweaking his book covers, pondering the meaning of the universe and reading, and if you think it's easy doing all that at the same time you should see what he can do with a mug of coffee, a banana and a large bag of salt.When he's not making outlandish claims he likes to count how many novels he's written, and how many genres he's written them in. (Lots and too many.)Finally, if you want to hear Simon reading one of his award-winning stories, you'll find an enticement to join his newsletter here: spacejock.com.au/ML.html

Reviews for dragon and chips

[TexJester · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This was just a FUN listen (audiobook). The reader is either Aussie or Kiwi, and makes the story. The story isn't deep, but you really get into it. The characters aren't deep, but you become invested in them.

And the PUNS .. "You're going to need a bigger (whatever)" is common. Other lines that are normally wholly unimaginable in a fantasy story are here. The names of the knights - C'MON!! Sir Loin. Sir Cumfrance. Sir Prize. Sir Riff the singing poet (and several others). A hafling named Runt. Then you have Queen Thirsty ("Hi, I'm Thirsty." "I'll get you some wine.."). Lord Varnish the spymaster, a slippery fellow.

Towards the end of Book 3, Runt is trying to stop a carriage he's "driving". The description had me roaring with laughter - not the best thing to happen whilst piloting an 18-wheeler truck weighing 80,000 pounds at 75 mph!!

I laughed throughout the book. It helped me make it through a long and boring 2,000 mile drive.

If you like a fun filled romp of a fantasy mixed with a splash of science fiction (Clunk the robot, a/k/a Sir Roybot, and Hal Spacejock) filled with groan worthy puns, fire breathing dragons, dwarves, elves, goblins, haflings, knights in shining armor, magic - and mix in a terrific sea battle, this is for you! HIGHLY recommend. (I have found that apparently this is a second trilogy involving Hal Spacejock and Clunk; there's another set that I just downloaded that might set up why Hal and Clunk wind up in the Old Kingdom..)

[Crystal Pearson · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love his books, they're so funny and witty! End