Trafik by Rikki Ducornet

​   And now for something completely different…and I mean, completely different. No matter how much science fiction I’ve read, this intergalactic voyage definitely stood out. So even if it wasn’t mindblowing and even if it was definitely an acquired taste you gotta be in the mood for it sorta thing, you can fault it for not being original.
     Just how original? Well, the short answer is very. The language alone…is so, no pun intended, trippy, it takes a while to get used to. It’s almost poetic in a way, in a nonrhyming very strange way, that is.
     It does have an actual plot under all the wackiness and weirdness. A female astronaut named Quiver and her twitchy glitchy robotic sidekick named Mic travel through space to a planet Trafik. Quiver is obsessed with some mysterious redhead she saw in her dreams, Mic is obsessed with Al Pacino, among other things. Both of them spend time discussing random pop culture sort of things and reminiscing about the destroyed Earth. 
     The entire thing is very strange, but oddly charming. And very brief too. Maybe 90 minutes. This is important to mention, because any longer and it would potentially overstay its welcome and the weirdness would become tedious. But at only 124 pages, it manages to maintain its novelty. 
     Not sure how to categorize this…maybe quicky sci fi. But at any rate, it’s an interesting sort of oddball. And kinda funny too, at times. Obviously, going by the reviews, not for everyone. But if you’re looking for something different, something completely different…this’ll do.