Astro-nuts by Logan Hunder

Astro-nuts

Logan Hunder

Night Shade Books · Print & ebook · April 2, 2019

A Science Fiction pick for readers exploring Astro-nuts.

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Who it’s for
A zero-gravitas sci-fi spoof where rapid-fire puns share the airlock with interplanetary trouble.
Themes
Sci-fi satire, Space exploration, Interplanetary conflict
Pacing
Fast

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About this book

Laser-sharp zingers and out-of-this-world puns pile up at an astronomical pace in this zero gravitas sci-fi spoof from the author of Witches Be Crazy. Never meddle with unidentified spying objects . . . The year is: The Future. Mars and Earth are like that divorced couple who don’t exactly like each other but have at least stopped fighting in public.

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Floating somewhere in between them, amid all the garbage and Gene Roddenberry’s ashes, a transport vessel called the SS Jefferson is homeward bound. Its crew might have even made it on time for once, too . . . Captain Cox is no stranger to encountering the odd pickle in space, but when a tantalizingly derelict ship crosses paths with the Jefferson, he unwittingly parks in the middle of a NASA-ty interplanetary squabble. Faced with a marauding Martian and a squad of snobby secret agents, Cox and crew embark on a mad scramble across the solar system, to save themselves from either murder-via-space rifle or imprisonment in the notorious Guantanamo Docking Bay. Maybe they’ll also get around to dealing with the biological weapon that accidentally wound up in their fridge, too. Logan J. Hunder’s Astro-Nuts in this riotously funny send-up of spaceships and space exploration. Discover adventure, love, loss, gain, losing what was gained, gaining some of it back, and all the different ways the Outer Space Treaty can be violated.

Space, With Punchlines

A zero-gravitas sci-fi spoof where rapid-fire puns share the airlock with interplanetary trouble.

Come here for

  • Laser-sharp zingers and out-of-this-world wordplay
  • Space-opera hijinks with a distinctly unserious streak

Expect

  • A fast pileup of jokes and sci-fi send-up
  • A crew’s scramble through solar-system trouble

Where it sits

Funny Sci-Fi100%
Space Opera52%
Satire36%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Sci-Fi Adventure
  • Space Opera
  • Satire
Authors
Logan Hunder
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Published
April 2, 2019
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Sci-fi satire · Space exploration · Interplanetary conflict
Reading lane
Sci-Fi Adventure