"Finally, a science fiction book your grandmother will love—if she's a lustful, violent lady."
—Stephen Colbert

About The Sheriff of Yrnameer:
Meet Cole: hapless space rouge, part-time smuggler, on a path to being full-time dead. His sidekick just stole his girlfriend. The galaxy's most hideous and feared bounty hunter wants to lay eggs in his brain. And the luxury space yacht Cole just hijacked turns out to be filled with interstellar do-gooders, one especially loathsome stowaway, and a cargo of freeze-dried orphans.

Reluctantly compelled to deliver these defenseless, fluidless children to safety, Cole gathers a misfit crew for a desperate journey to the far reaches of the galaxy. Their destination: the mysterious world of Yrnameer, the very last of the "your-name-heres"—planets without corporate sponsors. But little does Cole know that this legendary utopia is home to a murderous band of outlaws bent on destroying the planet's tiny, peaceful community.

Follow Cole's adventures through a delightfully absurd science-fiction universe, where the artificial intelligence is stupid, dust mites carry branding messages, and middle-management zombies have overrun a corporate training satellite. In the spirit of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, The Sheriff of Yrnameer is sci-fi comedy at its best—mordant, raucously funny, and a thrilling page-turner.

About the author:
Michael Rubens has worked as a television writer and producer for a variety of networks, including Oxygen, the Travel Channel, and CNN. He was a segment producer for many years for Comedy Central's Emmy- and Peabody-winning Daily Show with John Stewart, where he produced field pieces with Stephen Colbert, Rob Corddry, Samantha Bee, Ed Helms, and other Daily Show correspondents. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Will Hines is an actor and writer who has performed at UCBT since November 2000, currently on the house team The Stepfathers. He also works at the theater as its Associate Academic Supervisor.