A Robot Named Clunk: Book 1 in the Hal Spacejock humorous scifi series

Simon Haynes

Aug 2011 · Bowman Press

About this ebook

A pair of misfits accept an impossible cargo job. Can they beat the odds and deliver?

Clunk, an elderly robot, will get a much-needed overhaul if he completes a 'simple' job for his boss.

Hal Spacejock, a crash-prone pilot, will get a lot of broken bones if he doesn't repay a loan shark.

Clunk is patient, reasonable and brimming with helpful suggestions. Hal is stubborn, quick to anger and incapable of listening to good advice.

They're as compatible as a burning match and a stick of dynamite.

But now, with everything on the line, they're forced to team up. This disparate duo has no choice: they must work together to deliver a vital, urgent cargo.

Unfortunately, a rival is after the same cargo, and he'll do anything to grab it. His finger is on the trigger. Hal and Clunk are in the crosshairs.

How can they possibly deliver when their chances of success are slimmer than Hal's bank balance?

How far will they get before Hal's famously short fuse runs out?

"Murphy's Law times a hundred."

The Hal Spacejock series features humorous science fiction, adventure and action. They're clean books with very occasional mild swearing.

Ratings and reviews

If you like red dwarf,star wars and hhgttg then you will love this. I'm on the third hal and clunk book and they are all great reads. Very funny. You must buy from this author!

A funny story line and great characters. I'm interested in the next book in the series.

This book will make you laugh cry send the captain to Flight School does he need it a robot named Chuck read it you will love it

About the author

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.)

Finally, if you want to hear Simon reading one of his award-winning stories, you'll find an enticement to join his newsletter here: spacejock.com.au/ML.html