The Captain Needs a New Maxi
Part 1 of the Ice Hookers from Uranus series
Follow the comedic space travels of an all female crew of Ice Hookers from Uranus in Earth year 2222, including an android with multiple personality disorder and holographic skin; a speaking telepathic dog; and, their sentient ship with an attitude, as they must shutdown the deteriorated AI of their ship to avoid being killed in space near Saturn. The crew pilots the crippled tug to ancient ruins near the Great Rift on Mars to sell a weird artifact to a notorious gangster in order to buy a new Maxi-Dyne Space Tug the captain needs. They almost get robbed by the evil gangster but the captain and her fierce crew manage to fight an army of his robots (roids) and clones to escape. They also manage to hijack his ship, a new Maxi-Dyne Space Tug, sitting nearby on the landing field. During the escape the captain meets the new ship's A.I. so that the new ship helps them all evade capture. In the end they switch to the new space tug and "cremate" the old ship in an emotional ceremony orbiting Jupiter.