Praise for Space Team:“Laughed so hard I shot coffee out my nose.”“If all scifi was like this, everyone would be reading it.”“This book is so good you might punch yourself in the face.”Cal Carver thinks his life has hit rock bottom.When the small-time conman finds himself imprisoned and forced to share a cell with a semi-naked cannibalistic serial killer, he’s pretty sure his day can’t get any … killer, he’s pretty sure his day can’t get any worse.
He is wrong.
It isn’t until two-thirds of the human race is wiped out and Cal is mistakenly abducted by aliens that things really start to go downhill.
Whisked across the galaxy, Cal is thrown into a team of some of the sector’s most notorious villains and scumbags and tasked with delivering a package to a warlord-run solar system where the authorities dare not venture.
The mission should be simple enough, but as one screw-up leads to another the ragtag group of unwitting heroes find themselves in a frantic battle to save an entire alien civilization – and its god – from total annihilation.
Featuring epic space battles, unforgettable characters, and a shapeshifting blob with the face of Tobey Maguire, Space Team is the first book in the internationally bestselling series by award-winning author, Barry J. Hutchison, and is perfect for fans of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Galaxy Quest, Guardians of the Galaxy, and pretty much anything else with the word ‘Galaxy’ in the title.
Except maybe Samsung’s Galaxy S series, which is a range of mobile phones, and so not really similar.
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had a smile the whole time i was reading
Great fun and mindless entertainment, exactly what I was looking for, I will look for the rest of the series.
This review applies to all of the 9 books I’ve read in this series.
This first of the series works a bit hard, in the beginning, to demonstrate the main character’s flippant, narcissistic and sarcastic personality. After a few chapters, though, what seems to be trying too hard sort of stabilizes as other characters are fleshed out and the plot thickens, as they say.
It’s a fun and easy read – as are the subsequent books in the series – and much tighter writing than most other Space Operas I’ve read, including J.S. Morin’s series which starts out great but gets sloppy -and shorter- by Mission 12.
The common themes are here: Government versus the little guy. Alien invasions and alien comrades. Spaceships that need fuel and supplies and no work to be had for the team with a bit of integrity. Not, you know, much…
The author doesn’t overwhelm with tedious descriptions of aliens that will never come back into the story, or repeat the same thing over and over or even, spend too much time catching you up to the storyline on subsequent novels.
I’ve since read through all the Space Team books and feel comfortable in saying this is very much like Malcolm Reynolds. Zoe, and Jayne of Firefly with the crew of Moya on Farscape. Pretty much absent the intense love story that ties together Farscape.
Of course, the lack of sexual tension is revealed best in moments of sexual immaturity but somehow, you overlook it until about the last book when it gets to be – seriously? Still the old testicles rising from the landing gag? Still checking out the other fella’s junk?
Despite the periodic pubescent wonder and snickering, the bottom line is a team that tries to do what they think is right and, amazingly, manages to survive despite the multiple universes threatening to destroy them. Good read.
I love this book and the writer’s style of humor! The characters are interesting and entertaining and this is a great introduction to what I’m hoping will be a long series.
Great story, some strange twists. Overall it’s a decent entertaining sci fi.
Loved this series. Great fun.
It was a good light hearted storyline, interesting, funny ( i didn’t think it was that hilarious) but still funny. Great characters, action packed and entertaining. It was interesting and kept me reading just to find out what would happen next. Good read for fiction lovers.
Enjoyed the jocularity but would like to see better puns.
Below average and pedestrian, this novel and so many others like it prove the ultimate failure of self publishing…that most “novels” should never see the light of day. Still, I have read worse so two stars.
This is a book that pokes fun at many things that some much Sci Fi takes very seriously. I enjoyed the author’s humor and the twisted. Well worth reading.
A fun read…
an ok read
Hilarious characters and plot, can’t wait to read the next one.
LMAO, very ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ish. I liked it so much I bought the next one in the series, and it did not disappoint either. Very fun to read!
The humor was forced, I think the author was trying too hard to get a laugh out of each line.
Funny- lighthearted read.
Read the first of the series and you are hooked!
I loved this book! It made me laugh! My husband loves it too!
Space Opera for the campy child in us on a sugar binge. Borderline rediculous like the best Red Dwarf episodes.
This one is a bit too predictable. The author couldn’t quite decide whether to go for a full on spoof of the genre or try to just be a bit cheesy. He seemed to settle for just a mashup of already well known story lines.