Normal Space

When grapes of wrath kill…Serving as assistant tea-brewer aboard the Starship Expediter provided about as much excitement as Malloy wanted to handle. Unfortunately, the native plantmen of newly discovered planet Vegania have other ideas.Fleeing explosive melons and skull-bursting coconuts, Malloy discovers a mysterious artefact he comes to know as The Object, and it's the most effective stress ball he has ever encountered.After a broadly successful mission, the Expediter crew visits planet Vintage, the galaxy's wine-making capital, for some much-needed rest and relaxation. Unfortunately for Malloy, his stress ball steals the media limelight, and his captain is not happy.However, a furious captain is the least of his worries when the locals begin to… change. Turns out the werewolf apocalypse is much scarier than the zombie variety, and that's before a monstrous giant stomps onto the scene to smash buildings and eat people.As conditions on Vintage take a gory and cataclysmic turn, Malloy needs all the help he can get to survive, even if that help comes in the form of heavily armed thieves-for-hire and their rustbucket ship.BUY NOW to begin a hilarious apocalyptic adventure!

Reel life bites back…The crew of the Starship Benson Window Cleaners heads to sleazeball pleasure-planet, Keep It Reel, for a business trip. After sampling the amusements, they wait until nightfall to break into a museum and swipe a valuable videotape from its pedestal.The heist goes swimmingly until an old frenemy makes a nuisance of himself, and an old boss sticks his massive nose in. His nose is less problematic than his accompanying gunmen, and the inevitable mutant apocalypse can't come soon enough.Malloy makes an unlikely new friend amidst the blizzard roar of awakening antiquity, but the relationship is short-lived. When disaster strikes, he faces the terrible fate that awaits him courtesy of the criminal community's ineffable cycles of life.A dark past rises. Malloy stares down the barrel of a dark future. And the present doesn't look bright either.BUY NOW for the catastrophic power of world-ending nostalgia!

Is it curtains for the crew?The Benson crew visits the galaxy's sweltering, curtain-making capital in Damask. They want to spruce up the ship with some soft furnishings, but they get more than they haggled for when they're hired to infiltrate an industry darling's latest soiree for a spot of espionage.In Damask, creative differences are seldom amicable.Throw in rival battalions of security guards armed with rifles and 'your mum' jokes, a soupcon of cutthroat assassins, and marinate in free alcohol. It's no wonder things go downhill fast.Malloy's inebriated confrontation with his inner demons doesn't help matters, and neither does Li's inability to stand still and keep quiet. The situation goes from bad to worse when a corpse is discovered centre stage (literally!), and Malloy's the chief suspect. Worse still, the curtains are rebelling. Weary of being strung up all day, they cast off their rails and string up their tormentors in gruesome revenge.Can the Bensonites escape rough justice when half the team's sloshed on their cocktail of choice? With a little help from their new friends, anything's possible.BUY NOW for the apocalyptic consequences of bitter rivalries and artistic obsession!

It's a neck and neck race… against deathThe Benson crew glimpses an alternative lifestyle when they enter Chipped Space, a part of the galaxy where everyone smiles like an idiot and no one steals. Gross!After several bureaucratic hours, they land on the planet Third Diamond to meet a contact with an offer they can't refuse, no matter how much certain individuals want to. At least they escape his unwanted therapy session, but that lands them in a sightseeing tour with an eccentric scientist accused of being a serial killer.However, once a celebrated artist is imprisoned, it's not long before the Bensonites are creeping through clandestine tunnels and uncovering galaxy-shattering secrets. Cryptic laboratories, ancient architectural wonders, animal-headed people from days of yore… The Object's mysteries finally unravel, and the news is nothing good.No one expected the citizens of Chipped Space to become a life-threatening obstacle. They're too polite for their own good, and if they harbour any dark thoughts, they're buried deep. Unfortunately, the Benson crew is adept at forcing the darkest, most murderous thoughts to the surface…BUY NOW to see how niceness ends the world!

Seeds of destruction (and cooking oil)…After surviving the near destruction of their ship, the Benson crew limps into their most formidable mission yet. How do you sneak into a skyscraper that lacks doors?Planet Top Brassica is the galactic capital of the renewable fuel industry. Top-tier public transport winds through a city where garden terraces decorate every skyscraper, but the glittering surface hides widespread discontent, secret police, double agents, and sinister science.Aided by strange new allies, the crew stumbles on secrets they may wish they'd never unearthed, and some revelations hit way too close to home. The pieces finally fall into place, and it's not a pretty picture.Now all they have to do is repeatedly escape certain death. Advanced military hardware snaps at their heels, alongside fearsome soldiers who are brain-burstingly eager to catch them. Meanwhile, with their unique talent for chaos, the Bensonites unknowingly lead a rebellion that may overthrow the government.Trapped in a world collapsing around them, an unlikely hero must rise to the challenge as Normal Space enters its thrilling culmination!BUY NOW for the devastating fallout of humanity's greatest hubris!