Space Humor

Cal Carver and his Space Team may have lost their ship, but they haven't lost their knack for attracting trouble. Just hours after setting foot on a new planet, Cal and the crew find themselves caught up in an interplanetary kidnapping plot. Reuniting the suspiciously-silent young victim with her parents on their far-off home world will make Cal rich beyond his wildest dreams. Unfortunately, half the pirates and bounty hunters in the galaxy have the same idea, and they're more than happy to take the girl by force.

Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom.

Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes strangely and deeply attached to them, even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the humanoids.

"No-one’s dead until I say they’re dead!" Being told you're a legend is not the same as knowing it, or being it. Bud's been told he's the real Merlin. He knows it to be true. But being the legend is a whole different thing. Up until now, he's been Bud, doing what's necessary. Now he must really be - Merlin. The Hunter Imperium Universe Is best read in this order: The Hunter Legacy Hero at Large Hunted Hero Hunting Send in the Hero Make or Break the Hero Hail the Hero Burnside's Killer Hire a Hero Jane's Christmas Hero to the Rescue Hero at the Gates The Long Road to Gaia Home is Where ...

Acclaimed author Walter R. Brooks is beloved for his Freddy series. In this tale, Freddy and his friends decide to take a trip to Mars. However, things go a little haywire, and Freddy and his pals are knocked off track. This is when the fun begins. John McDonough's festive narration makes listeners feel a part of Freddy's crew to Mars.

Bounty hunter Duke LaGrange has seemingly retired on the primitive world of Neprius. His former sidekick, Ishiro’shea, has hung up his katana and is now the proud owner of the galaxy’s loudest bar, Cyborg Joe’s Grill N’ Go and The Why Not Saloon on the planet Kelt. But when a mysterious entity visits Duke and warns him of a great danger set to destroy Earth, he must decide if he will get the gang back together for one last mission.

While trying to stop a cyber-attacker stealing all Space Team's hard-earned money, the cyborg, Mech, unlocks a secret partition in his hard drive, revealing a mysterious set of coordinates. The co-ordinates lead the team to Funworld, a planet-sized theme park with a worrying number of artificially intelligent clownbots and a shocking disregard for Health & Safety. With no weapons, and a shapeshifter who can no longer shift-shape, Space Team's quest to unlock Funworld's mysteries leads them deep into the planet's core....

Cal Carver's space team is broke. When they pick up a distress signal from a luxury space cruiser, they think their luck might be about to change. And it does; sadly, not in the way they'd hoped. Someone has detonated a time bomb aboard the cruiser - an experimental device designed to shatter time itself. As the team passes through the fragments, their personal timelines begin moving at very different speeds, and an ageing Cal is forced to live out decades aboard the ship surrounded by his now statuelike crewmates and the mutated, inbred descendants of the cruiser's former inhabitants.

Lyla Cowan still isn’t sure she’s doing what she should be. Democratic Union and Naranja space proved to be hostile, but they finally convinced her to upgrade. So where next for her fledgling mercenary misfits? They’ve been invited to Karn, but is the League of Worlds’ space too tame? But adjacent to Karn is the third of the core belonging to the kangaroo like Ralnor. No-one knows anything about what goes on there, except the Ralnor value law and order above all. But where the Keerah impose military order, the Ralnor are supposed to enforce laws. Exactly what the difference is, no-...

In Book 5 of the Voided Man series, the plot lines from the original trilogy catch up to and merge with those introduced in Navigating Yesterday. Banner Dawson returns to Earth on the Valkyrie-84 with John and Annabelle Dawson and most other residents of the Potato aboard... King Harold regains his senses and control of the Realm... The secrets of the lost Valkyrie-200 are revealed... Lord Jeffrey marches north with lost tech of types both expected and unexpected... The Independent Order of Valkyries mobilizes and marches south, and the reason for the order's name is revealed... And Bucky ...

The Galactic Empire disappeared a lifetime ago. Jake Stewart doesn't care, he needs to earn a living. He fled his station in the outer Belt, enrolled in the merchant academy, and snagged a scholarship. The future looks bright. But a crooked boss, some paperwork shenanigans, and a freeloading best friend put him in a bind. When he's accused of a murder he didn't commit he goes on the run from the Planetary Militia. There's only his wits and a suspiciously helpful pretty girl between him and jail. Can he trust her to prove his innocence? Or does she have another agenda?

Lyla Cowan is no stranger to events that bend out of control. The Cosmos keeps asking her to step up, and up, and up again. But each time she does, she finds something else which is bent out of shape. She was once asked to consider the line between mercenary and militia. Now she’s walking that line, and guess what? It’s still bent. Something is really wrong in the Sector Nine Badlands. The Ralnor situation never seems to end. And now the Terrans are the ones needing help. It’s all in a day’s work for those who do the Unbend. The Hunter Imperium Universe Is best read in this order: ...

The galaxy is at war, and Space Team just can't seem to stay out of trouble. Following one close-call too many, the team hides out on a tiny backwater moon, hoping the hostilities between Zertex and the Symmorium will all just blow over. But when first officer Loren's brother is taken prisoner and sentenced to death by the Symmorium, Cal and the others must make a choice - a choice that could spell the end of Space Team forever....

Romans! Madrigals! The Dark Ages! Revolutions! Trumpets! The Oranges of The First World War! All of this (except trumpets) and more, is covered in this definitive, easy-clean history of all world history so far, written by the 21st Century's leading historian, philosopher and thinkerer Philomena Cunk.

Lyla Cowan never understood what happened. One moment she was leading a squadron, the next she was waking up in a care unit with people angry at her. It set her on a path to what she has become, and what she now has. She was undone, and then came back from that. Or at least, everyone thinks so. Things seem to be getting even more chaotic, but it keeps her occupied. And dare she admit it, happy. But at the back of her mind is always the niggling doubt. Doubts about herself, and how she was undone once, without knowing why, or if it could happen again. Is the reason she can’t accept being ...

The Galactic Empire is missing its most precious resource: a sense of humor. Dax Bidet is just another unemployed, thirty-something slacker still living with his parents. Along with his best friend Buck, he spends his days making pranks and uploading them to social media. But things are about to take a drastic turn. When Dax and Buck are mistakenly abducted by aliens, they soon find themselves in a teeming galaxy sliding towards war. The only way to keep the peace is to regale the rebellious planets with… comedy. Dax has just been given the unenviable title of space clown. He has to ...

In Lionel Shriver's entertaining send-up of today's cult of exercise - which not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal life - an aging husband's sudden obsession with extreme sport makes him unbearable.

Lyla Cowan is finally feeling good about where she is. But what she is remains a yet to be answered question. Ralnor space is proving to be just as lucrative as DU space was. And just as dangerous. The Ralnor don’t like the Unruly, and they act like it’s not a problem. But Lyla can now see the cracks in the façade. But are things actually much worse than anyone will admit? Now she has a full service mercenary company at her back. Now she can face whatever comes at her with confidence. But Unruly is, as Unruly does. The Hunter Imperium Universe Is best read in this order: The Hunter ...

At 75 years old, John Perry is after a fresh start - so, naturally, he joins the army. Earth's military machine can transform elderly recruits, restoring their lost youth. But in return, its Colonial Defence Force demands two years of hazardous service in space. This is how Perry finds himself in a new body crafted from his original DNA. A genetically enhanced and upgraded new body, ready for battle. But upgrades alone won't keep Perry safe. He'll be fighting for his life on the front line as he defends humanity's colonies.

Lyla Cowan holds the key to an important lock. But in this case, using it both locks and unlocks at the same time. There are consequences to locking, and consequences to unlocking. And whichever you do, the other will happen too. The real question is: Will you accept the consequences or not? She’s not the one who must answer that. But she also knows the consequences will be hers to face. So what do you do? Lock or Unlock? The Hunter Imperium Universe Is best read in this order: The Spacemage Chronicle Yesterday's Spacemage Today's Spacemage Tomorrow's Spacemage The Hunter Legacy Prequels ...