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.