Platoon F: Pentalogy

by John P. Logsdon

Genres: Arthurian; Humor & Satire; Humorous sci-fi

Synopsis

Spaceships on rails? That alone should tell you what you're getting yourself into...

*INCLUDES MISSIONS 1-5*

The SSMC Reluctant (Book 1)
Commodore Don Harr is being punished due to a military mistake. He has been physically altered, given a new identity, and placed in charge of the antiquated ship known as The SSMC Reluctant. Their first task is to fly the old beast around the planet in celebration of her fiftieth anniversary. But during flight, new orders arrive. Harr learns that their true mission is to destroy a nearby Kortnor space station. Worse, it's a suicide mission...
As Harr works with his crew to figure out alternatives to going down in flames, special agent Kek fights to ensure they all die as planned. But something even stranger is going on, and it'll take a bit of sleuthing on Harr's part to figure out precisely what it is…

Angry Robots (Book 2)
Captain Don Harr and the crew of The SSMC Reluctant are being honored at a banquet. But while they're getting medals pinned on, the electricity goes out and the place fills with sewage. Worse, Rear Admiral Stanley Parfait takes it upon himself to protect Captain Harr's buttocks...
It's soon learned that the robots who run the sewers have had enough. They want to get out of the sewers and build a life for themselves that's not so damn degrading. Worse, they've cunningly stolen a ship from the museum and have taken it off the rails…

The SSMC Voyeur (Book 3)
Rear Admiral Parfait is on holiday when an archaic space probe returns to Segnal Prime. It has a message for the people of the planet, which seems innocuous enough, but Rear Admiral Conster sees it as an act of war. That means Captain Don Harr is in charge of fighting that war...
Platoon F is put on a long trek to attack the planet that returned the probe. But it's many lifetimes away and Harr doesn't exactly want to die on the ship during flight. Chief Engineer Geezer has been working on an instantaneous device that promises to solve the problem. Unfortunately, the robot doesn't quite know how it works, and that means The SSMC Reluctant is going to visit a hell of a lot more than the planet she's supposed to attack…

Earthlings (Book 4)
Captain Don Harr is told that the crew of Platoon F is going to travel back to planet Earth for further study. But Rear Admiral Parfait has decided he wants to join the mission, acting in the role of Senior Diplomat...
As they head off to the planet they'd visited during their last mission, they soon find they've somehow arrived 500 years in the past. Worse, one of Harr's officers is captured by religious zealots and they've sentenced her to death because they believe she's a witch...

Synthetic DNA (Book 5)
Captain Don Harr and his misfit crew have returned to Segnal Prime 500 years in the future, where they learn that they're all heroes. But when it becomes clear that the race of androids has no need for sentient organic beings, things take a turn for the worse...
Harr and Geezer, having been imprisoned, have to put their heads together to find a way out of this mess. The rest of his crew are taken down to the planet to be paraded around and put through integration. Harr can only hope that a crew of miniature aliens can help to free them before it's too late...

If you like warped comedy, ridiculous physics, and more innuendo than you can shake a stick at, then you’ll love John P. Logsdon and Christopher P. Young’s outrageous space adventures.

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Release date: August 7, 2014

Publisher: Crimson Myth Press

Print pages: 594