**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.
[I don’t know if any of the above are in audio.]
Non-fiction **What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions** by Randall Munroe narrated by Wil Wheaton.
It consists of a series of questions on pop-sci and pop-culture, each answered in one or two paragraphs. The answers are hilarious in a dry-humored way.
An example question is: What would happen if you hit a baseball pitched at 90% of the speed of light?
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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.
[I don’t know if any of the above are in audio.]
Non-fiction **What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions** by Randall Munroe narrated by Wil Wheaton.
It consists of a series of questions on pop-sci and pop-culture, each answered in one or two paragraphs. The answers are hilarious in a dry-humored way.
An example question is: What would happen if you hit a baseball pitched at 90% of the speed of light?