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Humans Are Trash
The worst people of Earth are humanity’s only hope.
Six American elitists find their space excursion cut short when their spacecraft, a glaring symbol of wealth and privilege called Piranha X, gets lost and stranded in deep space. Its passengers, some of Earth’s worst humans, find themselves without help or hope on an alien space station they never knew existed, forced to work together to do the impossible and find a way back to Earth.
Russel Cane is an A-list actor whose body of work is outweighed only by his ego. Carole Dahl is a recording artist on top of the charts and the world. Elton Bowers is a tech billionaire who thinks the universe owes him more than what he’s already gotten. Nilla Shake is a white rapper with a penchant for missing the point. Jamie James is a social media influencer lost without her connection to her various outlets. Reagan Eaton is the youngest passenger of Piranha X and the son of a prestigious Republican Senator. Rounding out the spacecraft’s manifest is Eden Seventeen, a sexual companion android who has no compunction about killing her human compatriots to save them from their various predicaments.
Together, these six humans and android must save Earth from impending doom based upon their combined actions after they’ve pissed off galaxies’ worth of reptilian fascist overlords, googly-eyed chop shop owners, intergalactic loan sharks, space bugs with a taste for human flesh, and everything else the universe can throw at them. With everyone in the universe coming for their home planet, it’s a race against time and the galactic police force. If they ever want to go home again, they’re going to have to make sure it’s still in one piece when they get there. Because if it’s one thing the rest of the universe knows for sure, it’s that humans are trash.
Daniel Aegan pens a raucous space voyage into the realm of comedic sci-fi that lampoons Earth’s wealthiest in a parody mimicking real life. Taking place in an uncertain future with a predictable class of people, Humans Are Trash reflects real life while painting an outlandish yet realistic picture of the universe at large. Even if humans are as bad as the rest of the universe thinks they are, there are still species who can be as bad.
Six American elitists find their space excursion cut short when their spacecraft, a glaring symbol of wealth and privilege called Piranha X, gets lost and stranded in deep space. Its passengers, some of Earth’s worst humans, find themselves without help or hope on an alien space station they never knew existed, forced to work together to do the impossible and find a way back to Earth.
Russel Cane is an A-list actor whose body of work is outweighed only by his ego. Carole Dahl is a recording artist on top of the charts and the world. Elton Bowers is a tech billionaire who thinks the universe owes him more than what he’s already gotten. Nilla Shake is a white rapper with a penchant for missing the point. Jamie James is a social media influencer lost without her connection to her various outlets. Reagan Eaton is the youngest passenger of Piranha X and the son of a prestigious Republican Senator. Rounding out the spacecraft’s manifest is Eden Seventeen, a sexual companion android who has no compunction about killing her human compatriots to save them from their various predicaments.
Together, these six humans and android must save Earth from impending doom based upon their combined actions after they’ve pissed off galaxies’ worth of reptilian fascist overlords, googly-eyed chop shop owners, intergalactic loan sharks, space bugs with a taste for human flesh, and everything else the universe can throw at them. With everyone in the universe coming for their home planet, it’s a race against time and the galactic police force. If they ever want to go home again, they’re going to have to make sure it’s still in one piece when they get there. Because if it’s one thing the rest of the universe knows for sure, it’s that humans are trash.
Daniel Aegan pens a raucous space voyage into the realm of comedic sci-fi that lampoons Earth’s wealthiest in a parody mimicking real life. Taking place in an uncertain future with a predictable class of people, Humans Are Trash reflects real life while painting an outlandish yet realistic picture of the universe at large. Even if humans are as bad as the rest of the universe thinks they are, there are still species who can be as bad.
278 pages, Paperback
Published April 28, 2024
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Daniel Aegan
26 books9 followersDaniel Aegan lives a private life in New Haven, Connecticut with his family. Other than writing, he practices reading tarot cards. He's a dark humorist who writes with a twist of fantasy, sci-fi, or horror. His first self-published book is Blood Drive, and there are many more coming. (source: Amazon.com)
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May 5, 2025
This was fun! It played in my head like a movie, and I could picture real-life counterparts for most of the main cast. The end was satisfying and left a door open to a potential sequel I'd love to check out, should the author write one. If you like quirky sci-fi space adventures with plenty of action, you won't be disappointed!
May 9, 2024
Over all, I'm going to place this at 4.5/5.
Characters: they're realized, but they are archetypes and leans heavily into certain assumption with some kinds of characters more than others. You knew who was talking, al though, there was one character who kept adding, "Know what I'm sayin'" towards the end after every freaking thing he said. It was cool for the first time or two, but it went on throughout the rest of the books for some reason. This did start to infuriate me, but it happened at the climax, so I was almost finished with the book at this point.
Plot: I won't talk too much about it, because spoilers, but it was well done I thought. Humans are trash, is the thesis of this book, and it should be clear that you know that as mistakes were made.
Humor: it was consistently funny and brought smiles to my lips, which is a hard thing to do.
Characters: they're realized, but they are archetypes and leans heavily into certain assumption with some kinds of characters more than others. You knew who was talking, al though, there was one character who kept adding, "Know what I'm sayin'" towards the end after every freaking thing he said. It was cool for the first time or two, but it went on throughout the rest of the books for some reason. This did start to infuriate me, but it happened at the climax, so I was almost finished with the book at this point.
Plot: I won't talk too much about it, because spoilers, but it was well done I thought. Humans are trash, is the thesis of this book, and it should be clear that you know that as mistakes were made.
Humor: it was consistently funny and brought smiles to my lips, which is a hard thing to do.
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