Cal Carver is having a bad day. Imprisoned and forced to share a cell with a cannibalistic serial killer, Cal thinks things can't possibly get any worse.
He is wrong.
It’s not until two-thirds of the human race is wiped out and Cal is abducted by aliens that his day really starts to go downhill.
Whisked across the galaxy, Cal is thrown into a team of some of the sector's most notorious villains and scumbags. Their mission should be simple enough, but as one screw-up leads to another, they find themselves in a frantic battle to save an entire alien civilization - and its god - from total annihilation.
A hilarious, fast-paced space adventure from the author the Independent calls "the new Terry Pratchett."
I really enjoyed this book and the next few books of the series. It is sort of scifi humor in the vein of discworld's fantasy humor.
The characters are likable and it has it's own voice. Worth a read.
Space Team is a classic space adventure with a focus on comedy (think Hitchhiker's Guide), that is filled with plenty of incompetence and manages to straddle the line between stupid and funny. As it takes itself lightly, you end up with a highly irrelevant and yet entertaining tale exploring the cosmos with a plot that is surprisingly clever despite the characters being out of their depth.
My usual tastes run more on side of serious, high-stakes military science fiction, so it's a surprise that I enjoyed Space Team so much. The brilliance is in the cast: there is so much personality that by the end of the novel, you could mentally put them in a room and predict what antics each member will cause (on themselves and each other).
That said, the main character is self-aware that he talks too much, and the narration is mainly from his POV so …
Space Team is a classic space adventure with a focus on comedy (think Hitchhiker's Guide), that is filled with plenty of incompetence and manages to straddle the line between stupid and funny. As it takes itself lightly, you end up with a highly irrelevant and yet entertaining tale exploring the cosmos with a plot that is surprisingly clever despite the characters being out of their depth.
My usual tastes run more on side of serious, high-stakes military science fiction, so it's a surprise that I enjoyed Space Team so much. The brilliance is in the cast: there is so much personality that by the end of the novel, you could mentally put them in a room and predict what antics each member will cause (on themselves and each other).
That said, the main character is self-aware that he talks too much, and the narration is mainly from his POV so if the first couple of paragraphs turns you off... it won't change. If you're like me and you're chuckling from Cal's suffering, then you'll be pleasantly surprised by a story that's deeper than it looks, and manages to avoid cliches while still being about a band of idiots saving the galaxy.
Recommended. It's not Douglas Adams... but it's close.
Silly fun
An absurd conman gets kidnapped out of prison by aliens and is forced to join a band of misfits to stop a galactic war. It's a quick and entertaining read, even if it doesn't make a lock of sense.
Fun read.
