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These first three are by John Scalzi:

**Starter Villain** is the most entertaining book I’ve read recently. It’s a spoof of the early James Bond movies. A substitute teacher inherits his estranged uncle’s villainy which comes complete with a secret volcanic lair.

**The Kaiju Preservation Society** is … sci-fi fun and Bond-like.

**Redshirts** is a satirical look at space operas from the point-of-view of ‘expendable’ crew.

Yahtzee Croshaw’s **Will Save the Galaxy For Food** follows a space pilot scrounging a living after being put out of work by technology advances. The protagonist is a mashup of Han Solo and Crocodile Dundee.

Then there’s **The EOM Expression** sci-fi by DPForesi, that I’m currently reading for the third time.

It’s about 1,300 pages (if I remember correctly). It’s core concept has a large group of people leave the solar system to establish their own form of laissez-faire government only to face an attempt to coerce them back under control.

The author puts forth some intriguing technology concepts and the technicals (scene depiction, word choice, sentence structure) of his writing are very good. The story itself is long and contains some “dream” sequences and other author-choices that didn’t strike a chord with my personal tastes. Following along at the beginning was a little difficult, but sooner AND later everything came together.

Its one BIG flaw, though, is it sorely needs copy editing. There are a lot of typos, a few missing words, and some serious punctuation problems that threw me out of the immersion.

You’ve probably read it, but it’s fantastic so just in case you haven’t – have you the Expeditionary Force novels by Craig Alanson? ScI/Fi adventure and they’re a ton of fun while keeping the stakes up.

Have you read The Expanse series by James SA Corey. It was an incredible ride and it’s a complete series which I always prefer.

The Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman