Every show and film and book I grew up with presented the military as a place where youâd find yourself. The military could be good, could be bad, and all that âgloryâ stuff was clearly nonsense⌠but shared trials made you stronger and forged ride-or-die buddies for life. And hey, itâd pay for college.
Then I joined. It didnât work out. Every day ranged from tedious to toxic, even when we did genuine good. I made one short-term friend in four years.
I still loved those stories, but none of them were ever about the guy who joins up and doesnât find himself and never belongsâso I wrote it.
Poor Manâs Fight is a rockinâ space opera built on shattered dreams, student debt, and space pirates. Lots of space pirates. Itâs funny, itâs sober, and youâll want to hug Tanner Malone even when heâs covered in blood. The real enemies are always capitalism and toxic masculinity.
And then comes the war with the corporations that built this whole dystopia, because the enemy is still capitalism, even for the aliens.
On a brighter note, Tanner does make it out of the military and into college, becoming the Deadliest Unpaid Intern in the Galaxy⌠and the Resident Advisor for a freshman dorm full of chaos goblins.
(Cover art by Lee Moyer, Julie Dillon, Dan Watson, and Brittany Torres, for which Iâm forever grateful.)
If youâve made it this far, hopefully youâre looking for where to pick this up. Theyâre all available on ebook and Kindle Unlimited, and everything from Poor Manâs Fight to Last Man Out is also in paperback and audio.
And bonus: theyâre cheap!
