Jon Martin Watts: 4 books

An aging salvage pilot, on his last mission, has to decommission an obsolete space hotel. But shutting off the hotel's sexy robot barmaid turns out to be a whole lot harder than he expects.

A space freighter pilot is assaulted, robbed, and stranded on the dreary, rain-lashed planet, Tempest. The price of his escape is to become a reluctant soldier in a brutal, mercenary conflict. Things have to get better, right? A dark, sometimes comically dark, tale with a wry twist.

A space traveler's search for a downed scout ship and its crew turns up a stone-age civilization with an astonishing and poignant legacy.

When an impossibly gigantic owl moves into their neighbourhood, Andrew and Joanne are curious, and slightly afraid for the safety of their livestock. But the world is on the brink of catastrophe, and the immense bird is just the latest manifestation of a global phenomenon... megafaunation!