Jupiter Jones
Jupiter Jones writes funny science fiction about ordinary people encountering extraordinary problems they are spectacularly unqualified to solve. He believes the science should be accurate, the universe should be enormous, and somebody should probably know where the brakes are. When he isn’t stranding fictional humans several light-years from home, Jupiter can usually be found reading about quantum physics, playing chess, gaming in his mother’s basement, or explaining why a technically accurate comparison can still be deeply undignified. He lives somewhere with excellent Wi-Fi, questionable life choices, and a cat who has declined to comment on any of this.
This Was Not The Mission Series
Spaceships Don’t Have Brakes sends five highly competent humans on an accidental trip across the universe with no map, no way to turn around, and absolutely no idea how they’re getting home.
Can We Use GPS to Find Earth? strands five smart people somewhere in the universe with plenty of science, absolutely no directions, and the increasingly undeniable conclusion that they are definitely lost.
We Can’t Take You Anywhere sends five increasingly competent accidental space travelers straight into first contact—and possibly the galaxy’s most avoidable interplanetary incident.
Who Wants to Go Home? sends five accidentally stranded humans toward Earth at last—just as they realize the alien world they can’t wait to leave has somehow become home.
Apparently, We Live Here Now finds five stranded humans facing their most terrifying alien challenge yet: permanent residency, interplanetary bureaucracy, and the possibility that they might actually belong here.