please read to the end if you need to be warned about adult content!
In the galactic prison system, she’s listed as an ‘Organic Weapon of Mass Destruction’… too bad she’s your new cellmate.
Grant didn’t sign up for interstellar incarceration. One minute he’s brawling with lizard freaks behind his pickup, next, he wakes up paralyzed in a space supermax. Tagged. Scanned. Sentenced without trial. All because he tried to stop his girlfriend from getting probed by a UFO. Now he’s the hottest piece of meat in a prison full of predatory aliens, homicidal psychos, and the finest 'intimacy bots' space hamster science can produce.
Welcome to Space where privatized justice means maximum profit, minimum oversight, and ‘rehabilitation’ involves gladiator games, vending-machine bug paste, and unsolicited cavity searches from sarcastic AI.
Worse? He’s been ‘accidentally’ reassigned to the women’s wing.
Now he’s bunking with alien psychics with boundary issues, rogue clones, ovulating extraterrestrials who want to make “first contact”, and one very angry redheaded astronaut. And somehow, these girls all looking to him for leadership… or maybe a date in the prison showers.
Grant’s going to survive this.
He’s going to break out.
And he’s going to prove Earth’s greatest weapon is its attitude problem.
Packed with over-the-top action, foul-mouthed humor, alien bureaucracy, and steamy fan service, Space Prison is a full-throttle sci-fi harem adventure for fans of Borderlands, Dungeon Crawler Carl, and trailer-park underdogs who accidentally become the galaxy’s apex predator. Perfect for fans of ‘humans are space orcs’, HFY, and stories where humanity punches way above its weight.
Strap in. Break out. Pick a waifu.
18+ CONTENT this story is a scifi harem adventure where the morals and social constructs of our world don’t apply to a harsh alien civilization.
I was kind of hoping that this book would be more of a romance book. The title has the word 'date' in it, but there's no dating. Even still, it was genuine fun.
I was torn between 4 and 4.5 stars. There are numerous grammar, spelling and punctuation issues. It's about 100 pages too long. Sometimes there are political jokes that just don't quite land. But despite all of this, it's a really good fun sci-fi adventure and I'll definitely read the sequel.
The first thing you need to know about this book is it's intentionally farcical in many ways. Think Mel Brooks decided to write a space based haremlit novel, and you'll be in the correct headspace to read it.
The MC is a meathead on Earth that has trouble with authority, anger management, and maintaining relationships. After getting fired from his job, he's drinking in a strip club where is current girlfriend works as a dancer. From there, a fight, a trip out into the boonies, sex with said girlfriend, and then the aliens show up to start probing. Since the MC doesn't want to be probed, he kills 3 of the 4 aliens, but the last one gets away on their spaceship. And less than a day later, the aliens are back and snatching the MC onto a prison ship. And from that point forward, it gets weird.
The harem ends up with the 5 women from the title. A human space pilot working for "Space Y" (owned by Elton Mask), a space elf with psionic powers, a cloned and bioengineered woman with unmatched technical knowledge, a nymphomaniac space bunny fae type, and a manufactured clone of his now ex-girlfriend from earth that was created just so he could release some stress. The last one is barely featured in the book. The others, outside of the bioengineered woman, are pretty nuts in behavior.
Again, this book is almost Space Balls on a prison ship meets haremlit at times. If you expect serious, you will be very disappointed. If you read it expected to see weird stuff, you'll enjoy it.
The book definitely needs more editing. There are continuity errors (like the MC referring to only other human by her name 10 pages before she tells him her name) and quite a few typos in the book. Those keep this from being a 5-star book.
There will be a sequel, and I'm sure I'll read that when it comes out.
This book was a bit more porn:plot than what I've been reading recently, but still within what I expected. I mostly turned my brain off to enjoy the HFY happening.
Or I would have turned my brain off if I could get through more than a couple chapters with obvious editing errors. There is an editor listed next to the author on the GR page, and I have to wonder what they did? Spelling errors, missed capitalization, wrong homonyms, awkward phrasings. There was something that I noticed at least every other chapter and it kept pulling me out of the book. I don't expect books that end up on KU to be perfect, but if you list an editor as if they are important, then they need to actually do at least an okay job.
The author has same great setups and ideas. And the spicy side is awesome no complaints there. It’s too much chaos for me. I’ve found it’s a them with this author that I just don’t like. I feel like part a certain point harem members should be looking out for each other not throwing each other under the bus for the LOLs. And while the MC isn’t a doormat with the world at large, that kitty just does whatever over and over and it just gets old man, it’s funny the first couple times during the getting to know you, but after the life has been save a couple times, enough is enough. I want to like these books a lot, but for the love of Pete find down other ways to induce dramatic tension.
First off, read the warnings, including the ones in the review section. Next are some of my own warnings. (Spoiler Alert) The MC is a berserker who is blind to what’s in front of him. Astrogirl is a tsundere. Not my two favorite character archetypes, but nonetheless, the rest of the cast makes up for it. I’m not going to reveal too many spoilers, but this book is definitely worth reading. It’s especially worth it if you’ve just read something emotionally draining. It has everything from space battles to space horror. Also I would highly recommend the audiobook. It’s not perfect, but it’s close to it.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Too much wrong with the plot. Logic is just non existent and it annihilates immersion. I haven't managed to get past chapter five and the inconsistencies are literally driving me up the wall.
I do not understand why the author self sabotaged like this. The story/book would be a +4/5 with minor changes/editing for logic and continuity errors. I literally do not understand how said errors could even be made. Is this some sort of Artificial Stupid issue resulting from using AI writing tools?
This kept my attention quite raptly, unlike a number of things I've encountered recently. The humour is dark, my favourite kind of humour, and the pacing is good. Lots of violence, and an interesting take on (Earth) humanity's place in the wider galaxy. This one would work pretty well as a stand-alone book, but there is more to come; I'll be picking up book 2 as soon as it drops.
Objectively, this book is probably only 3 stars. Writing is nothing special, plot conveniences, etc. But my enjoyment was 5. It's really just a revenge-and-sex power fantasy in space, but the sci-fi was pretty imaginative and fun. Not much to say about it that isn't on the cover :p. A good time if you want horny, violence, and space/alien window dressing.
Liked it, would have probably rated a four but I know about how Amazon does its ratings and five is the only one that helps a book. MC has no time to rest and enjoy himself, he is always in one situation or another that could get himself and his girls killed.
This is my kind of literature, absurd, goofball funloving shit. The only problem i had was it was light on carnage, heh, heh! Nah, it was perfect,please write more.
This is my first book by J Foster Ward, I thought it was a good read. I’m not much on harem books, but this was tolerable, and I appreciate that the adult situations were not overly detailed. It’s a light hearted and funny adventure. A nice twist.
Evil Battlestar Galactica meets the Playboy bunnies
There is a huge amount of gratuitous violence, erotic activities out the wazoo, and a huge amount of gore. I thought it was the coolest thing. Cannot wait to see the next episode when it comes out by Author Ward.
I enjoyed this book for several reasons you got the Superman vibe you got the hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy vibe and who doesn’t love the little albino girl. Can’t wait to read the second book.
Warning, not for prudes. But one hell of a cool, space romp. Can’t wait for more. Why is there a minimum word count, when everything that’s needs to be said, is one sentence above?