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The Mostly Harmless and Useless Guide to Nothing Very Useful
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HumorScience FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Tom Ball
Published: May 3 2026
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
THE MOSTLY HARMLESS AND USELESS GUIDE TO NOTHING VERY USEFUL
Barnaby was a man of simple pleasures, namely collecting bread-bag tags and being professionally average. His life's greatest crisis was the day he was replaced by a velvet rope. That is, until he accidentally boarded a galactic garbage scow while looking for the Number 42 bus.
- Pedantic Generals who weaponize grammar.
- Existential Dread People who just want you to admit life is a bit of a bore.
- A Sentient Toaster with a Ph.D. in browning levels and a very bad attitude.
From the soggy streets of Earth to the Cosmic Kitchen at the edge of reality, Barnaby is on a quest to press the Universe's Reset Button. The only problem? The reboot takes ten billion years, and he's fairly certain he left the kettle on back home.
A 20-chapter epic about the beauty of being completely, utterly, and unapologetically useless
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