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No Free Lunch - Simon Haynes

Description: ISBN 1921361085 / Genre: Humour / Author: Simon Haynes / Paperback / 383 Pages / Book is published 2008-06-02 by Fremantle Arts Centre ... more

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... website, totally free of charge. Just Google "Hal Spacejock". For those not familiar with Hal Spacejock, descriptions are difficult since the inevitable comparisons with Red Dwarf always come up. True, the hero of the piece is an idiot but he is real, not a hologram. He does have a robot sidekick (Clunk), but it is the robot that is really the brains of the outfit, and he is definitely not a wimp. There is no evolved cat or any other life-form come to that. What the books do share with RD is that they are ...more

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No Free Lunch - Simon Haynes: Love is in the air... (790 words)
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I have been a big fan of Simon Haynes' "Hal Spacejock" books for many years, despite the difficulty of actually getting hold of copies. Haynes is an ex-pat, living in Perth - Western Australia, and his quirky novels started life really as a diversion alongside that of being an enthusiastic hobbyist computer programmer. The reason for the difficulty in obtaining his books is that so far he only has a publishing deal in Australia and the US. No UK publisher seems to have cottoned on to the potential popularity of his books. You can get copies either directly from Oz from on-line book shops such as Dymocks or else from Amazon, where they regularly ... Read the complete review