A space-faring ne’er-do-well with more bravado than brains, Rex Nihilo plies the known universe in a tireless quest for his own personal gain. But when he fleeces a wealthy weapons dealer in a high-stakes poker game, he ends up winning a worthless planet…and owing an outstanding debt more vast than space itself!
The only way for Rex to escape a lifetime of torture on the prison world Gulagatraz … Gulagatraz is to score a big payday by pulling off his biggest scam. But getting mixed up in the struggle between the tyrannical Malarchian Empire and the plucky rebels of the Revolting Front — and trying to double-cross them both — may be his biggest mistake. Luckily for Rex, his frustrated but faithful robot sidekick has the cyber-smarts to deal with buxom bounty hunters, pudgy princesses, overbearing overlords, and interstellar evangelists… while still keeping Rex’s martini glass filled.
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Okay, brace yourselves, this is going to be really strange.
Imagine PG Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster series. Make Bertie Wooster an interstellar con man with problems holding onto a single time, even in his successful cons. Make Jeeves a vaguely female robot who can’t actually have an original thought — for consistent, well explained and …
Starship Grifters is a crazy story about a gambling, alcoholic, con-artist and his robot assistant that accidentally become owners of a planet that put them deep in debt and smack-dab in the center of a conflict between the current galactic empire and the rebels who want to overthrow it.
That was quite the run-on sentence but it certainly begins …
Starship Grifters
(Rex Nihilo #1)
by Robert Kroese
This is a hoot and a half! This author is so funny! Rex is a real low life but a funny one at that. He has a robot named Sasha that is hilarious but doesn’t mean to be. She is my favorite in the book! Rex gambles away nearly everything but then makes a comeback and wins a planet! The guy who lost …
This book is hilarious. I especially love the point of view character: SASHA, arobot designed to be incapable of forming an original idea.
Just did not draw me in. To much “oh I’ll just make a deal” and get out of the situation.
Rob Kroese is a genuinely funny guy. This book is one of the finest science fiction satires I have read.