While Hilda, the new leader, retreats to her "pleasure dome," a coup rises to the occasion. And with Mex living it up in Scotland, there’s little resistance beyond a hippy colony too chilled to care, a ruthless reporter who will side with anyone who pays enough, and a missing set of batteries.
Despite never leading anything bigger than a study group, they decide to run the planet the proletarian way —until the leader returns to snatch back her power. The resistance turns to Mex, a woman with more conquests than Alexander the Great, but is Mex willing to give up her retirement for a group of rebels, too young to be taken seriously?
Rebel Without A Crew is the sixth in the comic Planet Hy Man series. If you love Terry Pratchett’s satire and Douglas Adams’ absurdity, then buy today and blast into a cosmic clash of cocktails, coups, and questionable leadership.
A few years ago I married into a Bangladesh family often helping in their Indian restaurant on the West Coast of Scotland. Living in a culture so different from my own I began to see stories in outsiders trying to understand. Most of the time I was the only woman and I often wondered about a world without men; before I knew it Planet Hy Man was born, a comedy Sc-Fi Rebel Without a Clue being the first in the series.
Kerrie has been shortlisted for the Ashram Short Story Competition and has had two radio plays performed.