Space Opera, as anyone who has even heard of it can tell you, is Eurovision in space. Of course, it’s also a grand homage to Hitchhiker’s Guide.

Aliens make first contact with Earth. They have just one teensy request: enter the galaxy-wide song contest. As long as you don’t come dead last, humanity will be deemed worthy of survival. Otherwise: (throat-slicey gesture).

Decibel Jones and Oort St Ultraviolet, last surviving members of the Absolute Zeros, must sing for their lives.

You know the old adage, ‘Show, don’t tell’? Otherwise known as ‘Thou shalt not info-dump’… This book seeks to take that nonsense and show it up for the lie it is.

It is approximately 90% disembodied narrator filling you, dear reader, in on everything that came before. It does so in the most campy, ridiculous, over-the-big-top fashion imaginable.

Expect sequins and unimaginable creatures and a history of galactic war, peace, and spectacle-making.