Bumbling space pilot Hal Spacejock and his long-suffering, bulletproof robotic sidekick, Clunk, are back for another round of high-stakes, low-competence adventures in Hal Spacejock Omnibus Three (Books 7–9 plus Albion).
What’s Inside the Box Set:
Book 7: Big Bang — A simple house-clearance job sounds like easy money—until rising floodwaters, a collapsing landscape, and a surprisingly dangerous artifact transform a routine cleanup into a total disaster zone.
Book 8: Double Trouble — After forgetting Clunk on the spaceport luggage rack (again), Hal realises he needs his metal co-pilot back—mostly because angry locals are shooting at him. The problem? Clunk’s been recruited by an old "friend" with a shady ulterior motive.
Book 9: Max Damage — Answering a distress call deep inside a lethal asteroid field, Hal dons a spacesuit and hops on a jetbike for a heroic rescue. It’s not long before he deeply regrets trying to help...
Novella: Albion — Summoned by a team of desperate orbital scientists, Hal is dragged into a high-risk mission where his unique brand of chaotic decision-making is somehow the only solution. (Sets up directly after Book 8).
Grab Books 7–9 plus the Albion novella in one discounted collection!
Simon Haynes lives in Western Australia, where he divides his time between herding deadly spiders, dodging drop bears, and making up wildly inaccurate sentences like this one.
By day he's an author. By night he's also an author.
He loves wry, dry humour, and his hobbies include daringly inserting the letter U into words where -- in some parts of the world at least -- this simply isn't the done thing.
As for his genre-spanning novels, they include epic fantasy (with robots), scifi comedy (also with robots), middle grade humour (featuring robots AND the wanton use of the letter U), as well as a series of historical mystery novels set in 1870's London. (No, of course there aren't robots in those. He's not completely out of his mind.)
When he's not writing Simon is usually renovating his house, sim-racing online, using twitter (@spacejock), gardening, tweaking his book covers, pondering the meaning of the universe and reading, and if you think it's easy doing all that at the same time you should see what he can do with a mug of coffee, a banana and a large bag of salt.
When he's not making outlandish claims he likes to count how many novels he's written, and how many genres he's written them in. (Lots and too many.)
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