Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Space Rogues | 2017 | John Wilker | N/A |
| 2 | The Adventures of Wil Calder | 2017 | John Wilker | Buy |
| 3 | Merry Garthflak, Wil | 2018 | John Wilker | Buy |
| 4 | Big Ship, Lots of Guns | 2018 | John Wilker | Buy |
| 5 | The Behemoth Job | 2018 | John Wilker | Buy |
| 6 | Stay Warm, Don’t Die | 2019 | John Wilker | Buy |
| 7 | So This is Earth? | 2019 | John Wilker | Buy |
| 8 | War and Peace | 2020 | John Wilker | Buy |
| 9 | A Guy Walks into a Bar | 2020 | John Wilker | Buy |
| 10 | Here There Be Monsters | 2021 | John Wilker | Buy |
| 11 | Big Ship, Lots of Trouble | 2021 | John Wilker | Buy |
| 12 | Rogue Enterprises | 2022 | John Wilker | Buy |
The Space Rogues series is John Wilker’s flagship work, running twelve books from 2017 to 2022. The series follows Wil Calder, a human who finds himself stranded in space and joins up with a crew of aliens on a beat-up starship. What starts as a survival situation turns into a career of taking jobs, getting into fights, and accidentally affecting galactic events.
The tone is comedic space opera, with plenty of banter between crew members and situations that escalate from bad to worse in entertaining ways. The series has drawn comparisons to shows like Firefly and movies like Guardians of the Galaxy for its mix of action, humor, and found-family dynamics. The books are self-published and have built a steady readership among fans of lighthearted science fiction.