Orphan Planet A feelgood space - Rex Burke

Character-driven SciFi with heart and humour – perfect for fans of 'Hitchhiker's Guide' and 'Red Dwarf' and with the found-family vibes of 'The House in the Cerulean Sea'

With Earth in crisis, humans are travelling deep into space. But humanity's future just took a wrong turn.

A seventeen-year colony-ship voyage – a straight shot to a new planet. Handpicked, single-minded crew, and a thousand settlers in hypersleep. No children, no families, no fuss.

That was the plan, anyway.

Captain Juno Washington commands a ship of loners and oddballs. The teenagers of the Odyssey Earth didn't ask to be born, and face an uncertain future. And Jordan Booth really didn't want to be woken up early to look after a bunch of kids.

After an unexpected change of course, relationships are tested like never before. If they listen to advice, pull together and stop squabbling, they might just make it.

Yeah, right. Good luck with that.