Joshtopia

By: Daniel Joshua Denton

Narrated by: Dale Buchanan

Joshtopia is a comedy sci-fi story about a striving young graphic designer named "Josh" who is abducted by aliens and finds that they are a lot different than what he'd expected. His world is permanently changed as ideas of creativity and being able to do what was considered Earthly impossible to him at one time. Now he finds that things are a lot different for him after the abduction event.

©2025 Daniel Joshua Denton (P)2025 Daniel Joshua Denton

Great stuff

This is one of the funnest, most unique audiobooks that you’ll ever listen to. Suggest this book to anybody who wants a good laugh and it just lighten up a little bit.

I kept waiting for the punchline. There isn't one.

This is a one joke book, the joke being that the protagonist is an idiot whose idiotic ideas succeed when in real life none of them would. That's it. I kept waiting for the punchline, but there isn't one. If you took a particularly clueless 14yo male victim of severe Dunning-Kruger effect and asked him to write the story of how his cool ideas would change the world, make him rich and famous, and get him his pick of gorgeous women, this book would be the inevitable result.

It might have been funny if even one character in the book had tried to give the protagonist a reality check, but that was apparently beyond the ability of the author. I only gave the story 2 stars because I have to admit that the author did absolutely commit to the relentlessly clueless immature one-track narrative. I feel like I've been pranked in the most stupid, least clever way possible. Maybe that was the point. I don't know.

The only redeeming quality of this audiobook is the narration. Pitch-perfect. Slow af; I had to listen at 1.2x just to get through it, but otherwise great.