Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Terminal Alliance | 2017 | Jim C. Hines | Buy |
| 2 | Terminal Uprising | 2019 | Jim C. Hines | Buy |
| 3 | Terminal Peace | 2022 | Jim C. Hines | Buy |
The Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse by Jim C. Hines takes a comic approach to military science fiction. When a bioweapon knocks out the command crew of the EMC Pufferfish, the ship’s janitor Marion “Mops” Adamopoulos and her cleaning team are the only ones left standing. Now they have to figure out how to fly the ship, fight the enemy, and maybe save their species.
Terminal Alliance (2017), Terminal Uprising (2019), and Terminal Peace (2022) follow Mops and her crew through increasingly wild adventures. The series combines slapstick humor with genuine stakes, and Hines uses the premise to poke fun at military science fiction tropes while telling a surprisingly heartfelt story.