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Hal Spacejock 4: No Free Lunch Paperback – March 1, 2006

by Simon Haynes (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 169 ratings
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Hal Spacejock is a loner, struggling to make his way in a huge, uncaring galaxy. His occasional brushes with the law have left him wary and suspicious of authority.

The Peace Force is a proud and dedicated body of humans and robots who work together to solve crimes and keep the Galaxy safe.

Now, one of them desperately needs the other.

Hal Spacejock No Free Lunch is book four in the Hal Spacejock series. (95,000 words, approx 380 pages)
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  1. Reading age
    10 - 12 years
  2. Book 4 of 10
    Hal Spacejock
  3. Print length
    352 pages
  4. Language
    English
  5. Dimensions
    4.5 x 1.1 x 7 inches
  6. Publisher
    Fremantle Press
  7. Publication date
    March 1, 2006
  8. ISBN-10
    1921361085
  9. ISBN-13
    978-1921361081
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About the Author

Simon Haynes is the award-winning author of the Hal Spacejock series, and a founding member of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fremantle Press (March 1, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1921361085
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1921361081
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 10 - 12 years
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 0.048 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.5 x 1.1 x 7 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 169 ratings

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Simon Haynes

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Simon Haynes lives in Western Australia, where he divides his time between herding deadly spiders, dodging drop bears, and making up wildly inaccurate sentences like this one.

By day he's an author. By night he's also an author.

He loves wry, dry humour, and his hobbies include daringly inserting the letter U into words where -- in some parts of the world at least -- this simply isn't the done thing.

As for his genre-spanning novels, they include epic fantasy (with robots), scifi comedy (also with robots), middle grade humour (featuring robots AND the wanton use of the letter U), as well as a series of historical mystery novels set in 1870's London. (No, of course there aren't robots in those. He's not completely out of his mind.)

When he's not writing Simon is usually renovating his house, sim-racing online, using twitter (@spacejock), gardening, tweaking his book covers, pondering the meaning of the universe and reading, and if you think it's easy doing all that at the same time you should see what he can do with a mug of coffee, a banana and a large bag of salt.

When he's not making outlandish claims he likes to count how many novels he's written, and how many genres he's written them in. (Lots and too many.)

Finally, if you want to hear Simon reading one of his award-winning stories, you'll find an enticement to join his newsletter here: spacejock.com.au/ML.html

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4.4 out of 5 stars
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Ned Nederlander
5.0 out of 5 stars There ain't no such thing as a free lunch
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2022
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Tanstafl. I knew as soon as I got the title there's a hook. I got hooked already so. Tuck in and enjoy the tucker!
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spincast1123
4.0 out of 5 stars 4 for 4 when it comes to reading fun.
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2018
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Who would have thought it, Hal and Clunk muddlin though another mess. The fun keeps coming and kept me on my toes waiting.
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JJ You
5.0 out of 5 stars Buy it, before it raised the price.
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2012
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If you like:
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy(book, BBC radio),The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic(in DiscWorld series)...
Mr. Bean's Holiday (movie), or Stephen Chow Sing Chi's movie...
The Big Bang Theory (TV series),The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (cartoon)...
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This "Hal spacejock" series is for you. It's unreasonable, nonsensical, and mixed a lot of funny dialog and scene. It admist "Scary Movies" or "Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy". Though the characters are simple, and the storyline plot is single, it is quit a entertainment.
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Franco
5.0 out of 5 stars Great!!
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2012
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Respect for Mr. Haynes. Definitely Hal Spacejock is great.
I believe this one is the best adventure till now: I enjoyed it a lot, and I do not want to detail anything for two reasons: 1) the book is fun from the beginning to the end, and 2) I do not want to give away the story.
I can't wait to get the next one.
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B. Berkhuizen
5.0 out of 5 stars SCIFI Humour
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2012
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"HOW MUCH IS THAT ROBOT IN THE WINDOW, THE ONE WITH THE SQEEGEE AND PAIL" God I love it, it must be an evil mind that that could come up with it, (though i wonder how many of the younger readers would have got the inference) Keep up the good work, not often do we see humerous SCIFI, let alone handled so well
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Trubble
5.0 out of 5 stars Simon you did it again.
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2012
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First book I ever read that I enjoyed it so much I started reading it a second time, the day I finished it.Keep writing my friend. I can see your software for writing in the storyline, keeping it clean and in context. Looking forward to what ever you write next. Rick
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Beorge
5.0 out of 5 stars Author is one of the best.
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2014
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Diverting stories with very little use of foul and blasphmous language. Author is good enough to write without the use of those crutches. Like the story plots and easy to read format. Very highly recommended author. Look forward to additional stories.
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Tony D. Piroli
5.0 out of 5 stars What a Journey
Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2014
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I have worked my way through the stories of Hal and Clunk.....I have never laugh so much and wished that it would go on forever
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Misfit Malice
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
Reviewed in Canada on July 15, 2023
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The best arc of the story, so far! Space adventures with a « detective mystery » twist! Loved each minutes of it!
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LadyRynn
5.0 out of 5 stars If you like a good entertaing and funny read..Read the Hal Spacejock books
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 3, 2014
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I cannot fault any of the Hal Spacejock books thus far. They are well written, very funny and very entertaining.

I thought Series 7 & 8 of Red Dwarf was funny but the Hal Spacejock books are a long way ahead.

Addenda June 2015.

I don't always finish books quickly as often months may go by before I have the time to continue where I left off. Recently I continued reading this book (In bed) and within minutes there were tears of laughter running down my face. Simon Haynes has a very unique writing talent, he can write something that out of context is funny but in context is side-splittingly hilarious. Humorous sarcasm, the humour we have all often experienced when we shouldn't laugh at someone else's albeit minor disaster...be we do!

Well written fiction should have the ability to conjure vivid images in the mind - these books have that in abundance. I would so dearly love to see these books transformed into a TV series (but with dominant input from the author)

I would give these books Ten stars if I could.
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Al the Bookworm
3.0 out of 5 stars Lighthearted space romp
Reviewed in Canada on January 15, 2021
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The book had a few chuckles and some intense moments. It was a fun and easy read but one that I will take only occasionally.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Another enjoyable read but...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 28, 2021
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A great next saga for Hal and Clunk and really enjoyed the cross over with Harriet Walsh. However, the book starts by noting t hat this occurs 2 years after Harris's Peace Force series but, having read the peace force series, I was disappointed to find that most of the characters were missing? What happened to Harriets sister or Dave and Ben? Do great story, funny but left a bit disappointed.
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Kevin
5.0 out of 5 stars Super funny Sci-fi series
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 21, 2022
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Great fun sci-fi series, very funny about a fairly hopeless freight pilot and his robot friend, getting into hilarious situations
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