Space Team
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From Book 1: The galaxy just called for help. Unfortunately, the wrong man answered.

When small-time conman, Cal Carver, is thrown in jail and forced to share a cell with a semi-naked cannibalistic serial killer, he's pretty sure his day can't get any worse.

Boy, is he wrong.

It isn't until two-thirds of the human race is wiped out and Cal is mistakenly abducted by aliens that things really start to go downhill.

Whisked across the galaxy, Cal is forced into a team of some of the sector's most notorious villains and scumbags and tasked with delivering a package to a warlord-run solar system where the authorities daren't venture.

The mission should be simple enough, but as one screw-up leads to another the ragtag group of unwitting heroes find themselves in a frantic battle to save an entire alien civilization - and its god - from total annihilation.

Featuring epic space battles, hilariously snarky characters, and a shapeshifting blob with the face of Tobey Maguire, Space Team is the first book in the internationally bestselling series by award-winning author, Barry J. Hutchison.

Perfect for fans of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Galaxy Quest, Guardians of the Galaxy, and pretty much anything else with the word 'Galaxy' in the title.*

*Except Samsung's Galaxy S series, which is a range of mobile devices, and so not really similar.

You don't really want to stick around on Earth, do you? Have you seen the state of the place? Buy Space Team now, or read FREE on Kindle Unlimited, and blast off on an action-packed adventure that'll have you laughing your puny human head off.

(Not literally.)

(I hope.)

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"Thrill a minute space adventure."

"Laughed so hard I shot coffee out my nose."

"If Douglas Adams wrote the A-Team, Space Team would be the result."

"If all scifi was like this, everyone would be reading it."

"Space-perfect space comedy."

"Fun, frantic, fantastic fiction!"

"Relentessly funny scifi comedy adventure."

"Someone call Netflix - they've got a new show to make!"

"I rarely give out five-star reviews for books - generally save those for life-changing reads - but I think Space Team, for what it aims to be, deserves the highest praise I can deliver. Well-written and expertly paced, it held my attention from cover to cover."

"I cannot remember the last time a book made me literally laugh out loud. Not a low "haha" to yourself, not a big smile as you turn the page, LAUGH out LOUD. As in, having to stop and put it down to wipe your eyes. Having to remember to bite your lip so the people around you don't think you're undermedicated."
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4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 4,670 4.0 on Goodreads 4,959 ratings
The galaxy just called for help. Unfortunately, the wrong man answered.

When small-time conman, Cal Carver, is thrown in jail and forced to share a cell with a semi-naked cannibalistic serial killer, he's pretty sure his day can't get any worse.

Boy, is he wrong.

It isn't until two-thirds of the human race is wiped out and Cal is mistakenly abducted by aliens that things
really start to go downhill.

Whisked across the galaxy, Cal is forced into a team of some of the sector's most notorious villains and scumbags and tasked with delivering a package to a warlord-run solar system where the authorities daren't venture.

The mission should be simple enough, but as one screw-up leads to another the ragtag group of unwitting heroes find themselves in a frantic battle to save an entire alien civilization - and its god - from total annihilation.

Featuring epic space battles, hilariously snarky characters, and a shapeshifting blob with the face of Tobey Maguire,
Space Team is the first book in the internationally bestselling series by award-winning author, Barry J. Hutchison.

Perfect for fans of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Galaxy Quest, Guardians of the Galaxy, and pretty much anything else with the word 'Galaxy' in the title.*

*Except Samsung's
Galaxy S series, which is a range of mobile devices, and so not really similar.

You don't really want to stick around on Earth, do you? Have you seen the state of the place? Buy Space Team now, or read FREE on Kindle Unlimited, and blast off on an action-packed adventure that'll have you laughing your puny human head off.

(Not literally.)

(I hope.)

Praise for Space Team:


"Thrill a minute space adventure."

"Laughed so hard I shot coffee out my nose."

"If Douglas Adams wrote the A-Team, Space Team would be the result."

"If all scifi was like this, everyone would be reading it."

"Space-perfect space comedy."

"Fun, frantic, fantastic fiction!"

"Relentessly funny scifi comedy adventure."

"Someone call Netflix - they've got a new show to make!"

"I rarely give out five-star reviews for books - generally save those for life-changing reads - but I think Space Team, for what it aims to be, deserves the highest praise I can deliver. Well-written and expertly paced, it held my attention from cover to cover."

"I cannot remember the last time a book made me literally laugh out loud. Not a low "haha" to yourself, not a big smile as you turn the page, LAUGH out LOUD. As in, having to stop and put it down to wipe your eyes. Having to remember to bite your lip so the people around you don't think you're undermedicated."

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4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,902 4.3 on Goodreads 2,494 ratings
The Snarkiest Sci-Fi Series in the Galaxy is Back!

After saving an alien race and its god from a sentient zombie virus, Cal Carver and the crew of the Dread Ship
Shatner are feeling pretty pleased with themselves.

Unfortunately, the creator of the zombie virus is out for revenge, and has recruited the galaxy's deadliest - and oldest - assassin, Lady Vajazzle, to hunt Space Team down. But when Vajazzle discovers the crew is under the protection of a wolf-like species known as the Greyx, she is forced to implement a Plan B so diabolical it threatens to plunge the entire star system into chaos.

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.

Featuring murderous senior citizens, a moon of death, and a pointy stick that could change the fate of the universe, Space Team: The Wrath of Vajazzle is the second relentlessly funny science fiction book in the bestselling Space Team series by award-winning author, Barry J. Hutchison.

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4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,410 4.3 on Goodreads 2,014 ratings
The third part of the laugh-out-loud sci-fi adventure series from the author critics are calling 'the new Douglas Adams.'

Cal Carver, petty-criminal turned space adventurer, is on a suicide mission - and he really
hates suicide missions. But this time it's to save his best buddy, Splurt, who has been taken prisoner by the the elderly assassin, Lady Vajazzle, and the evil Zertex corporation.

When they discover that the ship carrying Splurt never made it to Zertex, their search leads them through a wormhole to a mysterious planet unlike any they have seen before. Will they survive this strange new world and finally find their friend? And, more importantly, does he even want to be found?

Packed with gladiator battles, angry bees, a big thing blowing up, and the return of the galaxy's oldest assassin, Space Team: The Search for Splurt is the rip-roaring conclusion to the first Space Team trilogy.

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4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,524 4.4 on Goodreads 1,829 ratings

"On par with Douglas Adams" - Readcommendations

Cal Carver and his Space Team may have lost their ship, but they haven't lost their knack for attracting trouble.

Just hours after setting foot on a new planet, Cal and the crew find themselves caught up in an interplanetary kidnapping plot. Reuniting the suspiciously-silent young victim with her parents on their far-off home world will make Cal rich beyond his wildest dreams. Unfortunately, half the pirates and bounty hunters in the galaxy have the same idea, and they're more than happy to take the girl by force.

With their experimental new ship plagued by problems, a deranged space-warlord determined to watch Cal eating his own arm, and a whole lot of galaxy to get through,
Space Team is about to embark on its most dangerous mission yet.

The fourth hilarious instalment in the bestselling Space Team scifi adventure series, and the perfect jumping-on point for new readers.


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4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,467 4.5 on Goodreads 1,733 ratings
"This series just keeps getting better and better!" - PRBC, Amazon

The galaxy is at war, and Space Team just can't seem to stay out of trouble.

Following one close-call too many, the team hides out on a tiny backwater moon, hoping the hostilities between Zertex and the Symmorium will all just blow over.

But when first officer Loren's brother is taken prisoner and sentenced to death by the Symmorium, Cal and the others must make a choice - a choice that could spell the end of Space Team forever...

Packed with space battles, giant robots, and a dangerously obese man being sponged down with soup, The Guns of Nana Joan is the hilarious fifth book in the Space Team saga, and the perfect jumping on point for new readers.

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4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,461 4.4 on Goodreads 1,622 ratings
"A laugh-out-loud space adventure you don't want to miss!" - P. Dixon, Amazon

They may have recently averted a full-scale galactic war, but Cal Carver and Space Team just can't stay out of trouble.

When a 'Weird Space Thing™' threatens to destroy planet Earth, Cal is determined to stop it. But when they get there, they find the place is still swarming with parasitic extra-terrestrial bugs, and that there isn't a whole lot left to save.

While battling an unexpected ghost of the past, Cal is abducted by aliens. Again. Brought before their covert High Council, Cal is given a choice: save his Earth and doom countless others to oblivion, or sacrifice it, so that parallel Earths may live. Cal opts for none of the above, but his proposed solution might well doom not just his universe, but
all universes everywhere.

Featuring familiar strangers, unfamiliar friends, and an angry talking sheep named Duggie, Return of the Dead Guy is the reality-shattering sixth book in the Space Team saga.

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4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,222 4.3 on Goodreads 1,436 ratings
"Like crack for my eyeballs!" - Amazon Reviewer

While trying to stop a cyber-attacker stealing all Space Team's hard-earned money, the cyborg, Mech, unlocks a secret partition in his hard drive, revealing a mysterious set of co-ordinates.

The co-ordinates lead the team to Funworld, a planet-sized theme park with a worrying number of artificially intelligent clownbots, and a shocking disregard for Health & Safety.

With no weapons, and a shapeshifter who can no longer shift shape, Space Team's quest to unlock Funworld's mysteries leads them deep into the planet's core - and to the horrors that inhabit it - where they uncover the shocking secret Mech had no idea he was keeping.

Featuring space clowns, the second-last human alive, and at least one fleeting reference to Scooby Doo, Space Team: Planet of the Japes is the seventh hilarious book in the internationally bestselling Space Team series.

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8
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,087 4.5 on Goodreads 1,262 ratings
Cal Carver's time is about to run out.

He and his Space Team are broke. Forced to take low-paying gun-for-hire jobs just to keep the food replicator working, their prospects are not looking good.

When they pick up a distress signal from a luxury space cruiser, they think their luck might be about to change. And it does. Sadly, not in the way they'd hoped.

Someone has detonated a Time Bomb aboard the cruiser - an experimental device designed to shatter time itself. As the team passes through the fragments, their personal timelines begin moving at very different speeds, and an ageing Cal is forced to live out decades aboard the ship surrounded by his now statue-like crew mates and the mutated, inbred descendants of the cruiser's former inhabitants.

As if that isn't bad enough, the Time Bomb was just a test for the real weapon - a weapon that could spell a fate worse than death for Space Team, and the enslavement of the entire galaxy.

Featuring giant space babies, reverse mermaids and the most dangerous man in existence, Space Team: The Time Titan of Tomorrow is the eighth fast and frantic adventure in the Space Team comedic scifi series.

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4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,208 4.5 on Goodreads 1,188 ratings
It isn't just war. It's space war!

Geronimus Krone, the most dangerous man in existence has altered the course of time, appointed himself King of Space, and now rules the galaxy with the help of his four monstrous generals and their armies.

Cal Carver and his crew are the galaxy's only hope. But, reeling from their recent loss, they can't stop Krone on their own. Fortunately, they've got a whole bunch of friends they can call on for help.

With Krone's grip tightening around thousands of helpless star systems, a much larger Space Team must find a way to crush his armies, defeat his generals, and finally face off against the King of Space himself.

But first, they've got a funeral to attend...

Featuring implausible time travel, the Four Horsemen of the Spacepocalypse and the return of Tobey Maguire, Space Team: The King of Space Must Die is the explosive conclusion to the third Space Team trilogy.

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10
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,181 4.4 on Goodreads 1,098 ratings
The Space Team Universe has been changed forever!

Having journeyed through time in order to restore peace to the galaxy, Cal Carver and Space Team are a little dismayed to find out they may have inadvertently made things even worse.

Whoops.

Captured by an unfamiliar alien species, the crew is banished to a life of slavery in the Mustard Mines of Moktar, where they come face to face with the sinister Manacle - a terrying new enemy whose diabolical agenda is worse than any they have encountered before.

With the clock ticking and thousands of lives at stake, Space Team must race across the galaxy, stop Manacle's evil scheme, and save the day once more.

But first, they have to escape...

Featuring space gnomes, sand stomachs, and the sexiest facial paralysis in history, Space Team: Sting of the Mustard Mines is the tenth explosive adventure in the Space Team series, and the perfect jumping-on point for new readers.

THE SPACE TEAM SERIES:

Space Team
Space Team: The Wrath of Vajazzle
Space Team: The Search for Splurt
Space Team: Song of the Space Siren
Space Team: The Guns of Nana Joan
Space Team: Return of the Dead Guy
Space Team: Planet of the Japes
Space Team: The Time Titan of Tomorrow
Space Team: The King of Space Must Die
Space Team: Sting of the Mustard Mines
Space Team: Sentienced to Death
Space Team: The Hunt for Reduk Topa

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4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,271 4.5 on Goodreads 1,027 ratings
Accidental space adventurer Cal Carver has had a rough few months. He's fought spider-dragons, battled space clowns, and been repeatedly tortured by the galaxy's oldest assassin.

And don't even get him started on the squirrel-tits.

Now all that's behind him, Cal just wants to kick back and relax. The universe, however, has other ideas.

He and his crew find themselves in possession of the Symmorium Sentience, a once god-like entity now stripped of its power. The Sentience needs help to return home and restore the Symmorium species, which recently found itself the subject of an unfortunate genocide.

But with dark forces seeking to turn the Sentience's power into a planet-pulverizing weapon, the team's trek across the galaxy becomes a desperate race against time, with the fate of the very cosmos at stake.

Featuring awkward space-dates, gene-splicing villains, and a packet of coconut fingers as old as time itself, Space Team: Sentienced to Death is the eleventh book in the bestselling Space Team series by multi-award-winning author Barry J. Hutchison, and perfect for fans of funny stuff happening in space.

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4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,374 4.6 on Goodreads 1,015 ratings
Featuring unexpected stabbings, maniacal puppets, and a dog with a head like a testicle, Space Team: The Hunt for Reduk Topa is the twelfth book in the Space Team series, and the perfect jumping on point for new readers.

Sick of the stress, aggravation, and multiple genocides they've had to put up with lately, accidental space hero Cal Carver and his crew set off to start a new life in a distant corner of the galaxy.

Six tedious days of warp-speed and board games later, they arrive in a sector filled with new hope, new opportunities, and new adventures. Too broke to take advantage of any of these things, they are forced to accept a series of increasingly demeaning jobs just to make ends meet.

When one such job leads them to the offices of a sector-wide TV network, Cal signs-up to star in smash-hit gameshow,
The Hunt, confident of winning the big cash prize.

What he fails to realize is that the show's premise involves him being chased and killed for the amusement of the viewing public and so Cal must run, fight, and occasionally beg for his life as he attempts to win the game, the money, and his freedom.

But in the entire history of the show, no competitor has ever survived
The Hunt, and the network will stop at nothing to keep that record intact...

Space Team: The Hunt for Reduk Topa is the twelfth book in the internationally bestselling series from award-winning author, Barry J. Hutchison, and perfect for fans of Guardians of the Galaxy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and The Golden Girls.

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Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2020
I’ve read all of the books in this series and I wish I could give it 10 stars instead of 5... It’s definitely a must read for anyone who likes humorous sci fy. The writing is very funny and sarcastic, literally making me laugh out loud so often that my husband had to ask me what the heck I was reading. (He’s not a big reader but even he likes these books)

The main character is Cal Carver and I really enjoy his combination of silliness, caring, stupidity, bravery and adventure. Honestly, you never can predict what he’s going to do in any situation (except, that is, possibly the worst thing you can think of... he’s usually on board with that.) the supporting characters include his alien shipmates and the best friends and worst villains he meets in his travels through space and time.

Definitely read this series. It’s seriously one of the best series out there!
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Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2018
How much trouble can you get into? Cal can certainly get you into lots. Fonking fun.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2020
Get ready to laugh.
Space Team chronicles the accidental adventures of Cal Carver, a fortysomething low level con man from Philadelphia. After being mistaken for his cell mate, a notorious cannibal, he is kidnapped and thrust into the greater universe.
Aliens are real and diverse. They just think the Earth is too primitive to bother with, like an Imperial era territory.
Cal gets roped into a nefarious plot and bumbles his way through trying to survive . . .Space Stuff. His happy-go-lucky philosophy lands him on a team with an attractive blue pilot/minder, a sulky-teenager werewolf-like alien, a cyborg who is definitely not a robot, and an adorable, yet impossible, ball of shapeshifting green goo.
Cal is ready to survive the Universe. Can the Universe survive Cal Carver?
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Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2020
I was hooked from the start. During the Covid lock-down, I binged the entire Space Team series, including the Author's Dan Deadman tie-in series and the compilation of short stories. I have to say this series was great to read and an excellent escape from the world craziness of late. Well worth the money to download. If you are a fan of Douglas Adams or Benjamin Wallace, you'll definitely love these books. The series is loaded with laughs with some very poignant moments thrown into the mix. The fonking language is motherfonking censored, too making this series accessible to space teens and even space pre-teens who don't have uptight space parents. This is the kind of literature that the world needs today.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2019
I can't really say enough good things about the series. The entire series is funny on just about every page and in the rare cases it isn't, there is something touching taking place instead. Cal is the center of the series and his relationships with the other main characters take center stage. The relationship I like the most is between Cal and Splurt. Without ever saying a word, Splurt has somehow become my favorite character or the series.
While the writing seems sometimes simplistic and some sticking points seem to be simply waved away, a lot of those details are well thought out and come back to play roles later in the series. Seemingly throwaway lines or details might come back later as major plot devices. As Hannibal says on the A-team - I love it when a plan comes together.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2020
Meet Space Team, trying to describe this series without spoilers would be a disservice to you who have not met this team yet. You will laugh, you will cry and you will cheer on these shizznods. Most importantly, if you are anything like me, you will not put down these books, (except to wipe tears of laughter away) until you have read all 12 of them. Only to start listening to all the audio books afterwards, to just enjoy these adventures again.

Highly recommend this series to anyone who enjoys The classic humorous stories such as The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Stainless Steel Rat, Robert Asprin’s M.Y.T.H series and others I grew up reading.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2020
This is my favorite fonking comedic space comedy series. From the charming Cal to Splurt. I literally stalk Amazon waiting for the new books to come out. I own them both on Audible and Kindle. Why you may ask? 1) I like to support authors I love and 2) The audible books have wonderful outtakes at the end which literally make me laugh pee, and with both if I am at a good point (yes I am reading them again to be ready when the new one comes out), I can take off on Kindle right where I left off in Audible. LOVE!!!!!! Nothing better than laughing so hard at work your co-workers worry and come check on you. Yes, they are that good.
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2020
When Douglas Adams passed away, then Terry Prattchet followed. I was at a loss to find new fresh content that would make me laugh out load in public places, or hook me in such away that I would rather spend the night reading and not sleeping. Then deeply regret it the following day at work. Story’s that would capture you mischievous bent. Then came Barry with his tales of Cal Carver and Crew and let’s not forget Mr Deadmen. I can not get enough, they really have become truly addictive. His ability to entertain is second to none.

If you like to laugh and you like Sci-fi buy them all then take a week off work. You will not regret it
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Barry J. Hutchison is a multi-award-winning author of over 100 books. He's also standing behind you right now.

Relax. He isn't really.

(Or is he?)

(No.)

Born and bred in the Highlands of Scotland, Barry began his writing career writing novels for children and teenagers, before launching his first series of novels for adults - 'Space Team' - in 2016.

Since then, he has continued to write the 'Space Team' series, alongside 'Dan Deadman, Space Detective,' and the 'Sidekicks' superhero series.

As well as books, Barry writes for comics and animation, and is the only person alive to have written both the comic-book mini-series and a broadcast episode of 'Supermansion' starring Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad, Malcolm in the Middle) and Chris Pine (Star Trek, Wonder Woman).

Find out more about Barry and grab some free books at www.barryjhutchison.com/freebooks