The debut novel from author Andrew Bixler, Space Junk is a sprawling sci-fi adventure full of space, scrap, and videotapes. If you're a fan of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Cowboy Bebop, or Heavy Metal, Space Junk might be just the book you've been waiting for. Then again, what the fish do I know? Adam Jones is just another broke scrapper combing his little slice of space for the semi-valuable trash that litters its dark corners. He spends most of his days inside his junker, the Asteroid Jones II, drinking beer, watching ancient horror movies, and evading debt collectors. But life for Adam gets a lot more complicated when he discovers a mysterious object that attracts the attention of powerful and bumbling forces from around the universe. With the help of his wily grandfather and a mysterious feline stranger, Adam risks life and love in pursuit of financial freedom, even as the rest of the universe threatens to reduce him to space dust.

More space, more scrap, more videotapes... The United Empires have been scrapped, and the universe has fallen into disarray. During the space months following the Pants War, countless shows came and went, but none of them garnered a fraction of the viewership of Pants Team Pink. More popular than ever, the team has sold as much merchandise as the next hundred shows combined. But not all is as pink as it seems. Practical jokes are on the rise, and knock-off merch clogs the spaceways as dark forces conspire to challenge the reigning disorder. Meanwhile, Adam Jones finds himself right back where he started - broke, starving, and hungover. Scrap has grown scarce, and worse, nothing good is on. Feeding his addictions as he drifts aimlessly through space and life, it’s up to Grandpa and a familiar feline to drag Adam out of his space funk. The black gold is up for grabs as our pretend heroes suit up for the first annual Pants Con, but not even the most screen accurate of costumes can prepare them for the enemy lurking behind the scenes.

Death is only the beginning of the end of the beginning... Somewhere beyond time and space, inside a crumbling moon shack teetering on the edge of reality, rests the soul of the greatest space pirate who ever lived. Since his scrapper days came to an end, Adam Jones has been content to spend eternity lazing around the house rewatching the tapes of his life. But when a familiar heavenly creature shows up at his door, his quiet afterlife is forced into intermission. Coerced into looking after a class of annoying young souls, Adam must reckon with his past blunders as he sets out on a journey through the bowels of Other Side, determined to reunite with his lost love and retrieve his missing videotape, even if it kills him, again.

On a throwaway mission to investigate one of the universe’s oldest and most insignificant mysteries, two space cadets find themselves trapped on a floating garbage ball amidst the most valuable junk storm in history. Author's Note: This Space Junk short is a prequel of sorts but is meant to provide a different experience depending on what point in the series it is read.