“She didn’t like it, man, get over it,” said Mech. “She called the kid Cal, what more do you want?”
Cal shifted in his chair and gave a begrudging shrug. “Yeah, that was pretty cool, I suppose. But still. Santa.”
“Think she’s going to be OK?” asked Loren, leaning back on the stick and tilting the ship’s nose off the deck. “Staying here, I mean?”
“Well, no-one’s looking for her now, are they?” said Miz. “And, like, she’s got a baby that can blow stuff up.”
“Yeah,” said Cal. “Yeah, I think she’ll be fine.”
The ship edged towards the wide doors that led out into the vastness of outer space. Mech’s metal feet clanked across the deck, and Cal turned in time for a pair of leather boots to be thrust towards him.
“Merry Kroyshuk,” Mech grunted.
“Aw, Mech, you shouldn’t have!” Cal said, taking the boots. “I didn’t get you anything.”
Mech nodded. “Hey, no problem. My pleasure,” he said, returning to his spot.
Cal crossed his legs. He was about to pull one of the boots on, when something inside it caught his attention. He peered inside and his stomach did a little loop-the-loop.
“Uh, you do know there are still feet inside these, right?”
“Yeah,” said Mech, his metal mouth curving into a smirk. “Yeah, I know.”
And then the stars all stretched out, and the Shatner shot off into space, leaving the North Star, Morana, and the newborn boy child far, far behind.
SPACE TEAM
A hilarious, fast-paced space adventure from the author the Independent calls "the new Terry Pratchett."
He is wrong.
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Whisked across the galaxy, Cal is thrown into a team of some of the sector's most notorious villains and scumbags. Their mission should be simple enough, but as one screw-up leads to another, they find themselves in a frantic battle to save an entire alien civilization - and its god - from total annihilation.
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With time running out, Cal must find a way to outmaneuver and outgun the galaxy's greatest killer before she murders his friends, butchers the Greyx, and buys the whole galaxy a one-way ticket to total annihilation.
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