The Accidental Deathworlder

John was just an average middle-aged guy, minding his own business, when a group of overconfident alien graduates decided to abduct specimens from an undiscovered world for their final exam. Their mistake? Picking Earth—a planet so dangerous it had been classified asunknownjust to keep others from messing with it. They assumed grabbing a human would be simple. Instead, they got John, and things immediately wentverywrong.

From the moment he woke up in an alien containment cell, John’s so-called ‘luck’ started wreaking havoc. His attempt to escape resulted in massive damage to the ship, a broken containment system, and a debt so large the aliens decided tohirehim instead of throwing him out an airlock. Now stuck aboard their vessel, he’s been roped into working off his ‘debt’ as a glorified maintenance worker, despite having no qualifications beyond ‘has fixed a leaking sink before.’ Meanwhile, a highly excitable alien scientist named Vrixibalt has become obsessed with studying John, convinced his absurd survival skills are a scientific breakthrough.

Unfortunately for John, his ‘luck’ isn’talwayson his side—it tends to cause as much chaos as it helps him survive. Whether it’s breaking free from containment, unintentionally proving himself more resilient than the crew’s expectations, or causing a full-blown containment breach while doingbasicmanual labor, John keeps defying everything these aliens thought they knew about primitive species. While the crew struggles to figure out what todowith him, John is just trying to avoid getting killed, electrocuted, or spaced—all while working off a debt he’s pretty sure is completely made up.

Just another day in space.