Poisonous Reptiles : 186 Publishing : 9781739781460 : 18 Dec 2023 : Science Fiction / Humour. Should appeal to fans of Terry Pratchett, Discworld, Ernest Cline, Jodi Taylor, Douglas Adams. Age range: Teen to adult. Female protagonist. This is the second book in the Sputteridge Chronicles and picks up the story from the bestselling Dangerous Physics: Adventures in Sputteridge. Hugo Crean has made a mind-boggling leap across realities. Using a stolen Transition Vehicle he has jumped from a dysfunctional society ruled by a corrupt elite called the Regency, to Abbuth, a world whose fair-minded if rather na?ve and party-loving occupants have made remarkable scientific progress. Hugo's mission was to consolidate the Regency's grip on Abbuth and to help pervert their science to advance the Regency's military power. Hugo has no such plans. He intends to warn the Abbuthians of their peril, and also to meet Bettony Gullivant, the feisty hero whose journal forms the major part of book one of t