Book description
✶ Indie Ink Awards winner, 2023 ✶
✶ A heart-warming space adventure – ‘Red Dwarf' meets ‘Lost in Space' ✶
With Earth in crisis, and his life on the rocks, Jordan Booth reckons a one-way sleeper ticket to the stars sounds like a good idea. But humanity's future is just…
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1 author picked Orphan Planet as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved the bumbling Jordan Booth. Awakened a year ahead of schedule and still in space, he’s given the task of teaching a group of teenagers who might be smarter than he is but who have never been outside the ship.
The rest of the crew, from Captain Juno to the ship’s AI, each have their various quirks and foibles. Part Douglas Adams. Part Terry Pratchett. All heart.
From Nathan's list on space opera that’s not military science fiction.
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