The Death of Captain Space Hardcore

By: Michael Ronson

Narrated by: Martin McLauchlan

Death. The Big Sleep. The Dirt Nap. Le Petit Filous. What Shakespeare called ‘The Final Macarena’. Whatever you call it, it comes for us all in the end.

But Captain Space Hardcore has spent his whole life of galactic adventuring not dying and he’s not about to break that streak, even when a species of highly evolved, omnipotent extra-dimensional reptiles sentences him to death. No, he’s got worse things to worry about than a little case of mortality and the promise of doom from some godlike toads that want to see him croak.

With the ‘verse in flames he's on the trail of a deranged terrorist and he's going to tackle city-sized lizards, insane AIs, a genocidal vacuum, one giant spider, at least two malfunctioning jetpacks, and a plot to end the universe. The clock’s ticking, the Reaper approacheth, and it’s down to one man (accompanied by his sidekick Ebenezer Funkworthy) to both save the universe and get a quick deal on life insurance just in case.

Can he? Will he?! Might he?! Shalln’t he'd?! Willn’t he’ve’nt'll!?! Good question all, but the answers can only be found in one place—in The Death of Captain Space Hardcore—the book that listeners and critics alike are already calling “an absolute tour-de-france.”

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