The Sheriff of Yrnameer, Michael Rubens
The Sheriff of Yrnameer, Michael Rubens
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The Sheriff of Yrnameer
A Novel

Author: Michael Rubens

Narrator: William Dufris

Unabridged: 9 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/24/2009

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Meet Cole: hapless space rogue, part-time smuggler, on a path to being full-time dead. His sidekick just stole his girlfriend. The galaxy's most hideous and feared bounty hunter wants to lay eggs in his brain. And the luxury space yacht Cole just hijacked turns out of be filled with interstellar do-gooders, one especially loathsome stowaway, and a cargo of freeze-dried orphans.

Reluctantly compelled to deliver these defenseless, fluidless children to safety, Cole gathers a misfit crew for a desperate journey to the far reaches of the galaxy. Their destination: the mysterious world of Yrnameer, the very last of the your-name-heres—planets without corporate sponsors. But little does Cole know that this legendary utopia is home to a murderous band of outlaws bent on destroying the planet's tiny, peaceful community.

Follow Cole's adventures through a delightfully absurd science-fiction universe, where the artificial intelligence is stupid, dust motes carry branding messages, and middle-management zombies have overrun a corporate training satellite. In the spirit of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, The Sheriff of Yrnameer is sci-fi comedy at its best—mordant, raucously funny, and a thrilling must-listen.

About Michael Rubens

Michael Rubens is a television writer and producer whose credits include work for Oxygen, the Travel Channel, CNN, and Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The Sheriff of Yrnameer is his first novel. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on June 08, 2016

This is a hilarious science fiction novel that is highly entertaining. As the story opens, space rogue Cole is being held upside down by Kenneth, a super-big, super-strong alien with lots of tentacles and eyes. Cole owes Kenneth lot of money from gambling debts, and Kenneth is about to collect what......more

Goodreads review by Michael on August 24, 2009

Brilliant, stunning, hilarious -- at least in terms of the cover design, which is by the unbelievably talented Peter Mendelsund. The actual contents of the book are my fault. www.michaelrubens.com......more

Goodreads review by Michael on October 28, 2009

The problem with witty or humorous genre fiction is that Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams make it look so effortless. Reading one of their stories or novels is always a comic delight and the prose and language flows so easily across the page that it would be easy for the reader to assume that just......more

Goodreads review by Tony on April 29, 2010

I picked this up because (A) I'd like to try and read more sci-fi, (B) the cover and title caught my eye, and (C) I'm always on the lookout for good comic fiction, and given the author's work on The Daily Show, I figured this might be a good bet. The story is about a hapless space rogue on the run f......more

Goodreads review by Grumpus on January 20, 2017

I’ve come to the conclusion that I am not a sci-fi guy. Be certain to consider that fact if you are planning to use my rating in your decision to read this or not. I want to like the genre and can’t understand why I don’t. I believe I have the correct personality. I like space stuff, aliens, and susp......more

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