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Will Save the Galaxy for Food
Jacques McKeown · Book 1 · 2017
Audiobook available · 10 hr 21 min
Teleportation has left a former space hero struggling for paid work. Impersonating the notorious Jacques McKeown looks like a way to earn some money, until corporate and political schemes make the borrowed identity dangerous.
From the publisher’s blurb
“Space travel just isn’t what it used to be.”Read the full description at Dark Horse Books, publisher description via Penguin Random House
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What makes it funny?
The opening chapter gives the pilot an audience that refuses to admire him: tourists interrupt his heroic reminiscences with complaints. A sticky intercom button makes it difficult for anyone aboard to keep their contempt private.
The comedy at work
Croshaw makes a glamorous space career into precarious service work. The narrator's dry delivery and the characters' sniping keep puncturing the heroic image, even as the adventure grows dangerous.
Try this if…
Sarcastic narrators and space adventures that mock their own heroic conventions are the draw here. Readers in a LitRPG book group recommend its dry science fiction comedy and appreciate hearing Croshaw narrate his own work.
Good to know
The opening preview includes sexual insults and a joke referring to a past suicidal crisis. The adventure also touches on environmental damage, the power of wealth, and bitterness about being replaced by technology.
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Sources & further reading
- Apple Books listing for Will Save the Galaxy for Food (Unabridged) by Yahtzee Croshaw
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