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Five Girls You Date in Space Prison #1

The Five Girls You Date in Space Prison #1

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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.

700 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 17, 2025

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138 reviews7 followers
December 21, 2025
A Good Fun Space Romp

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.

4.5 out of 5
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477 reviews26 followers
July 2, 2025
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.
2,522 reviews17 followers
August 3, 2025
So many things crushed, ripped, and shattered. So many descriptions of alien penises. Not really what I was expecting.
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154 reviews1 follower
August 27, 2025
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.
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22 reviews1 follower
January 26, 2026
Make sure it’s your cup of tea

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.
4 reviews
January 16, 2026
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.
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294 reviews6 followers
January 9, 2026
Audiobook. - Narration pretty good. 4/5

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?

Just baffling.
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1,628 reviews62 followers
July 5, 2025
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.
113 reviews
September 5, 2025
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.
346 reviews4 followers
November 26, 2025
Hope that there are more books coming!

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.
43 reviews1 follower
July 20, 2025
Nasty! I loved it!

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.
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443 reviews
September 17, 2025
Fun

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.
184 reviews6 followers
October 31, 2025
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.
110 reviews
November 13, 2025
perfection!

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.
2 reviews
January 9, 2026
okay, that was seriously fun.

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?
14 reviews
July 19, 2025
need book 2 like I need air

Seriously. Sci fi at its finest. Grant or (Grant) was a class act at showing space why not to F with a human man.
7 reviews
August 5, 2025
A great sci-fi sit-com

Great use of analogies. Loved how it hinted about the current world (Elton Mask), but stayed out of controversial topics.
37 reviews
August 15, 2025
Funny, brutal, real.

Really liked this book. Great blend of romance, blood, guts, and shotgun shells.
Really looking forward to the next one.
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113 reviews
August 20, 2025
finished this a month ago and can't remember a single thing about it
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145 reviews3 followers
September 5, 2025
Skip this book

This was not a very good or interesting story. I had to force myself to read it. Just avoid it.
40 reviews
October 26, 2025
3 stars down for ending

I liked the book a lot. Got kinda boring towards the 89% mark but was still very good. Then the end. The last 6% just ruined the whole book for me.
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2 reviews
January 16, 2026
surprisingly smart and fun

It is a surprisingly smart and fun romp through the horrors of space capitalism and the humanity that exists there regardless
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