Phil Janes

Phil Janes is a science fiction comedy writer. He has published a series of three novels about interstellar space travel, in a humorous style, similar to Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and Grant Naylor.

Publications

*The Pioneer Series:
**"The Galaxy Game" (1993) (ISBN 1-85798-150-2) - First published by Millennium, part of the Orion Publishing Group. This book is the first in the Pioneer series and details the maiden voyage of the spaceship "Pioneer". The "Pioneer" is built to travel to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. It soon becomes clear that things are not what they seem; the crew are but pawns in a deadly game of skill played by mega-beings so advanced that they dispensed with bodily functions, home planets, and gravity millennia ago in order to get down to the really fun stuff - manipulating lesser species for their sport.
**"Fission Impossible" (1993) (ISBN 1-85798-144-8)
**"I, Arnold: Round Three of the Galaxy Game" (1995) (ISBN 1-85798-101-4)

Reception

Although a relatively unknown author, the books have received praise from "Publishing News," "The Dark Side," and "Nine to Five."Fact|date=January 2008

References

* [http://worldcat.org/search?q=au%3APhil+Janes&qt=hot_author Phil Janes at worldcat]
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Phil_Janes ISFDB entry]