"A wholeheartedly charming cast of characters steers this witty and preposterous SF comedy." - Kirkus Reviews "The mix of space hijinks, humorous prose, and untamed adventure here is a winning combination, boosted with endless originality and pizzazz." - The BookLife Prize The award-winning first book in the Zoomarble series is a wild ride suitable for all ages. It is a nonstop comedy action tornado with a literary flare. Siblings arriving in a quirky new town are quickly entangled in an absurd mission to save the Earth. With what Kirkus Reviews calls, “Swetnam’s deliberately nonsensical plot…”, Joey and Clarissa team up with the aliens who are trying to protect the planet from other, more sinister, aliens. Saving the planet is always more difficult when trying to stay on budget for the investors. From Amazon Reviews: "The writing is slick and moves through the story without purple prose or pretension." "It's a fast-paced reading adventure with an abundance of quirky characters..." From Goodreads Reviews: "Great characters and a really great adventure. Full of imagination and light humor! This was a fun read." Zoomarble is meant to be an entertaining and light-hearted read. It is not intended to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. Wait, I just checked that and it pays about $1.1 million. So, yes, I would like that, please. I wasn't setting out to write "science fiction" necessarily. But when there is a talking cat and a spaceship within the first page or two it's hard to call it anything else. I have great respect for real science fiction writers who do their homework. I had one single day of physics in high school and immediately dropped the class to keep from demolishing my GPA. If Albert Einstein explained his theories to Forrest Gump, that might best describe the level of scientific understanding shared in this book. Overall, I hope the book is enjoyable. It's best to picture it as a cartoon because that is the way it plays in my head. Adam Swetnam has been putting words together since the early 70s. Now he does it in book form because it is more portable. He was born in a faraway land called Muncie, Indiana, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. In high school, he dropped his physics class after one day and took a cooking class instead. His favorite authors, in the order he discovered them, are Dr. Suess, Roald Dahl, Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, and Salmon Rushdie. He believes the most important thing you can have in life, besides bleach and an alibi, is a positive attitude.