
โ๏ธ Written by: Dennis E Taylor
๐ท๏ธ Genre: Sci-fi
๐๏ธ Published: 01 December 2022
๐ Pages: 333
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Jack Kernigan is having a bad dayโฆa bad yearโฆa bad life. After being booted out of MIT, heโs back in his Ohio hometown, working for the family business, facing a life of mediocrity. Then one day, out on a delivery, his truck hitsโฆsomething. Something bigโฆfurryโฆinvisible. And, it turns out, something not of this Earth.
Fate can play funny tricks. Which is why Jack suddenly finds himself the planetโs best hope to unravel a conspiracy of galactic proportions that could spell the end of the human race. All Jack and his best friends Natalie and Patrick have to defeat an alien threat is their wits, a lot of coffee, and a rather snippy A.I. named Sheldon. Plus, their own spaceship.
After all, if youโre going to rescue the world, the least you can get out of it is your own spaceship.
Iโve read many of Dennis E Taylorโs books at this point and I generally enjoy them. He isnโt the kind of writer to build massively detailed fictional universes, like Sanderson, but he is great at writing immediately enthrawling sci-fi, and Roadkill is no exception.
Itโs a short book, at only 300 or so pages, so can be read in a few sittings. Which I did, because like his other books, I couldn't put it down.
Another really enjoyable read from Taylor; well worth a look.
The latest Bobiverse book recently came out, so I think I'm going to read that next.