Kindle Price: $2.99

Save $3.00 (50%)

Promotions apply when you purchase

These promotions will be applied to this item:

Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions.

Read with our free app
You've subscribed to ! We will preorder your items within 24 hours of when they become available. When new books are released, we'll charge your default payment method for the lowest price available during the pre-order period.
Update your device or payment method, cancel individual pre-orders or your subscription at
Your Memberships & Subscriptions

Buy for others

Give as a gift or purchase for a team or group.
Learn more

Buying and sending eBooks to others

  1. Select quantity
  2. Buy and send eBooks
  3. Recipients can read on any device

These ebooks can only be redeemed by recipients in the US. Redemption links and eBooks cannot be resold.
Kindle app logo image

Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.

Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.

QR code to download the Kindle App

Amazon book clubs early access
Loading your book clubs
There was a problem loading your book clubs. Please try again.
Not in a club? Learn more
Amazon book clubs early access

Join or create book clubs

Choose books together

Track your books
Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free.
Explore Amazon Book Clubs

Follow the author

Felix R Savage
Follow
Something went wrong. Please try your request again later.

The Reluctant Adventures of Fletcher Connolly on the Interstellar Railroad Vol. 1: Skint Idjit Kindle Edition

by Felix R. Savage (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 314 ratings
See all formats and editions

Fletcher Connolly hasn’t got a lot to lose. Since he, and half the galaxy, signed on to the rat race of the technological relics trade, Fletch has long since come to terms with the idea that he will join the ranks of the unlucky explorers that perish lightyears from home without a dime to his name.

As the first mate of an old, decrepit exploration ship--the Skint Idjit--things can't get much worse. As if that isn’t enough, he has a hard time convincing himself his luck is bound to change when he finds himself stranded on the planet Suckass, on a remote branch of the Interstellar Railroad. With his new assignment an unlikely candidate to hide alien treasures, true to his personality, Fletch settles down to work on his tan.

But when disaster strikes and a member of his crew is killed, Fletch finds himself torn between loyalty to the surviving crew and the siren song of an unsuspected trove of A-tech.

Can Fletch save the Skint Idjit and her crew from a horrible death? Or will he ignore their dying screams and laugh all the way to the bank?

Volume 2 of the Interstellar Railroad series, Intergalactic Bogtrotter, is now available!

Previous page
  1. Book 1 of 4
    Interstellar Railroad
  2. Print length
    122 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Sticky notes
    On Kindle Scribe
  5. Publication date
    July 3, 2016
  6. File size
    3306 KB
  7. Page Flip
    Enabled
  8. Word Wise
    Enabled
  9. Enhanced typesetting
    Enabled
  10. See all details
Next page
All 4 for you in this series See full series
See included books
Total Price: $11.96
By clicking on above button, you agree to the Kindle Store Terms of Use
More like The Reluctant Adventures of Fletcher Connolly on the Interstellar Railroad Vol. 1: Skint Idjit
Page 1 of 1Start overPage 1 of 1
Previous page
  3. Seeker
    Kindle Edition
    $6.99
  7. The Long Earth
    Kindle Edition
    Editors' pick
    $9.99
  12. Roadkill
    Kindle Edition
    $6.95
  20. Cold Eyes (First Contact)
    Kindle Edition
    $4.99
  22. The Thousand Earths
    Kindle Edition
    $0.99
  23. Slip Runner
    Kindle Edition
    $4.99
Next page
Loading...

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01HY5SJSS
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knights Hill Publishing (July 3, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 3, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3306 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 122 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 314 ratings

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.
Felix R Savage

Felix R Savage

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Sign up for Felix R. Savage's mailing list to receive a FREE library of subscriber exclusive stories, set in four of his fictional universes: Earth's Last Gambit, Extinction Protocol, Sol System Renegades, and the Interstellar Railroad. These stories are not available anywhere else! http://felixrsavage.com/library

Felix was born too late to be a knight in armor, and too early to be a space colonist. He makes up for it by writing action-packed science fiction epics that have sold over 130,000 copies worldwide and become USA Today bestsellers. Restlessly driven to explore, he was born in the Deep South, grew up in the UK, and now lives in Japan with his wonderful wife, two beautiful daughters, and their feline overlords. His books cover the spectrum of science fiction, from hard SF, through space opera, to comedic science fiction, but all deliver his trademark blend of rich characterization, gripping plots, and unexpected twists. Until the day when we can vacation on Mars, this is as good as it gets!

Customer reviews

3.9 out of 5 stars
3.9 out of 5
314 global ratings

Top reviews from the United States

Mark Gardner
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun Absurdist Humor: turn your brain off and read.
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2016
Verified Purchase
Rubbish With Names is a fun scifi romp through Weekend at Bernie’s. I picked up Skint Idjit somewhere, and saw that there was a newsletter signup to get this prequel, so I figured, “what the hay,” and went for it. Absurdist humor is often hit or miss, and I enjoyed Rubbish With Names.

I’d originally planned on reading Skint Idjit over two days, but couldn’t sleep, and ended up finishing it in one setting. Skint Idjit is a little more serious than Rubbish With Names, but not light on what I’ve come to expect from Absurdist humor: puns, juxtaposition, and ridiculous situations. A perfect short read to let your brain turn off and just roll with the story.

Rubbish With Names and Skint Idjit are both 4-stars, and one or both are free right now.
Helpful
 Report
doctorg13
5.0 out of 5 stars If you like to read just to go with the flow of ...
Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2016
Verified Purchase
I found this story to be very entertaining and difficult to put down. It is light reading as a space adventure story that does not require much analysis or thought. It is one of those books that you can get lost in the story and just go along as you read. If you like to read just to go with the flow of the story for distraction from the world this is one of the good ones. The interstellar railroad from which the story line evolves is a new idea to me and rather interesting. I await the sequel with anticipation.
9 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Jerry Larsoni
3.0 out of 5 stars Silly, by intention I'm sure
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2016
Verified Purchase
I've read Savage's Elfrida Goto and Sol System series, enjoyed them very much, and would no doubt give them all four or five stars.
This is something completely different, and just not to my taste. So I'd say, if you liked those, don't assume you'll like this, and if you didn't like those, you might like this. It's well written; it's just that I find the plot uninteresting and the characters unbelievable. I understand it's farce, and some people will like it. For me, there's just nothing happening; nothing I care about, that is. And I guess it's supposed to be funny, but I didn't get a single laugh out of it.

This is some very silly stuff, and I'm sure that's intentional; this is light, frothy, comedy. Farce. That's fine; probably a genre I don't usually care much for, but the problem I have with this is that there's a lot of heavy stuff in it-- murder, betrayal, multiple deaths by misadventure, etc.-- that's treated in this same "Importance of Being Earnest" manner. There's a guy on a ship trying to kill the captain, so the captain wears an exoskeleton, sleeps in it and everything, for weeks, rather than locking the guy up, confronting him, or making a pre-emptive strike. Two guys get deliberately abandoned on an uninhabited planet with deadly (artificial?) lifeforms, and when they meet up with the guys who abandoned them, they just let bygones be bygones. People are murdering and betraying each other in every other paragraph, and not making a big deal out of it. A big chunk of the crew gets killed and nobody seems too upset. The woman who's really running the ship requires the captain to dominate her sexually. (However, if you're into that, don't think it's going to be erotic; it's not. It's just played for comic effect).
Just doesn't work for me.

The background setup is that something called the Interstellar Railroad has just extended itself to the Sol System. Presumably it's been building itself for millennia and just finally reached us out here in the Orion Arm. It looks like a railroad, with ties and everything; apparently it's made out of ectoplasm or something, but you can grab onto it and it takes you to other solar systems on the railroad lines, with local loops so you can visit another system and get back on the railroad. There are construction and maintenance workers called "Gandy Dancers", also made out of ectoplasm, and it's not clear if they're aliens, automata, ghosts or what, and no one seems very interested, even though there are no extant alien sapient species; they've all blown themselves up and left lots of their technology lying around. A whole sort of Gold Rush culture has developed, of humans scavenging for alien technology that they can sell or patent or something and get rich on. So that's a very silly background, for a lot of silly stories, which will be forthcoming, but I stop here. Possibly you might like it.

This kind of thing happens when a writer with a successful series decides to do something completely different; the fans of the original series tend to hate the new thing. I love the Harry Dresden series; I can't stand either of Jim Butcher's other two series, and I wish he'd get back to Harry Dresden. I'll also be glad if and when Savage gets back to hard space opera. Not that this isn't well done, for what it is; I'm just not interested in this sort of thing.
5 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Richard A Powers
4.0 out of 5 stars The Irish go galactic.
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2016
Verified Purchase
I have been enjoying most of Savage series and the Reluctant Adventures have been a bit diferent but enjoyable enough for me to buy and read the next in the series. It presents a strange sense of humor which I am not used to but it is not distracting and fun to read. This is more of an enjoyable read rather than a galactic one but character development is there and i recommend this as a light read for sci-fi lovers.
Helpful
 Report
bonnie DALE keck
5.0 out of 5 stars Kindle Unlimited but one as freebie and rest thru ku ...
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2017
Verified Purchase
Kindle Unlimited but one as freebie and rest thru ku, without coercion, if one doesn't count Star Wars references and other such oddly interesting things. He needs to come sit by me and tell me stories, but until he does I suppose binge reading all to most of his books will have to do me.He ain't 'right' but that may be redundant when saying it to reference a writer; he is interesting to read, which can not be said about all writers.

The Reluctant Adventures of Fletcher Connolly on the Interstellar Railroad Vol. 0: Rubbish With Names
The Reluctant Adventures of Fletcher Connolly on the Interstellar Railroad Vol. 1: Skint Idjit
The Reluctant Adventures of Fletcher Connolly on the Interstellar Railroad Vol. 2: Intergalactic Bogtrotter
The Reluctant Adventures of Fletcher Connolly on the Interstellar Railroad Vol. 3: Banjaxed Ceili
The Reluctant Adventures of Fletcher Connolly on the Interstellar Railroad Vol. 4: Supermassive Blackguard
2 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Sarah E. Miller
4.0 out of 5 stars Funny Trip
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2018
Verified Purchase
I had a great time reading this book, and the rest of the series. It's not going to win any awards, but, hey, it made me laugh. The main character has a clear voice, you'll never mistake him for anyone else in the books. He's funny, and some of his one-liners are inspired. The idea behind the universe is interesting, without bogging down the story with all the worldbuilding bells and whistles. Read it, have a good time, and tell the Gandy Dancers "hi" for me.
Helpful
 Report
Circuits
3.0 out of 5 stars Very good and fun to read.
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2016
Verified Purchase
This was my first F.R. Savage book and I enjoyed reading it. The character development is good and the plot is fun. I thought it was a bit predictable, but I read a LOT of this type of story! There were some neat "creatures" and some fun technology, so don't pass it up if you like space opera type of reading!
One person found this helpful
Helpful
 Report

Top reviews from other countries

Mordecai
4.0 out of 5 stars Interplanetary archaeology/scrap-collection has never been such fun...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 19, 2016
Verified Purchase
Great stuff - A bit of 'Red Dwarf', a bit of Douglas Adams, and perhaps even a little of 'Father Ted'. A great romp in a future where hunting for alien artifacts makes you rich (possibly, and if you can survive random fauna.) Great characters and lots of laughs. The only problem was it was so short I read it in less than a day!
Report
Michael Senchak
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in Canada on September 8, 2016
Verified Purchase
Great little adventure full of twists and turns and a finale that is not quite what you expect :{)
Report
Mandy Walkden-Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars Alien artifacts, great characters and even a lightsabre!
Reviewed in Australia on September 23, 2016
Verified Purchase
A fun and action filled space opera adventure. A strange collection of crew are aboard the spacecraft, Skint Idjit, including a Wookie (sort of) and an apparently paranoid captain that insists on wearing his exoskeleton suit day and night. And Fletcher Connolly, a mildly deranged Irishman, who is after the 'brass ring' - that one piece of useful alien tech that will make his fortune and enable him to purchase his own planet.
It's this ambition that is frequently the cause of him being right at the centre of a string of hair-raising, suspense filled and often humorous shenanigans.

This particular adventure ends on an upswing for Fletcher Connolly, but then he and good luck are rarely on the most friendly of terms. It is indeed going to be fascinating to discover exactly what will go wrong for him in his next, mostly unwanted, adventure along the Interstellar Railway.

Highly recommended.
Report
Norma Miles
5.0 out of 5 stars "Well at least it isn't raining"
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 13, 2016
Verified Purchase
After returning a dead body to earth (see Rubbish with Names) the crew of the old ship, Skint Idjit, set off again a!ong the Interstellar Highway in hopeful search of new alien technologies that can be brought back to Earth and sold for a life changing fortune. But all is not right on the ship: the Captain, Fletch's oldest friend, refuses to come out of the exoskeleton he purchased weeks before even when he sleeps, and Fletch is pretty certain that another of the crew is a corporation spy. Then they hit a break in the Highway, find an exploded planet and, damaged, have to divert to and land on Planet number 28 for repairs. Will they find the money making items here? Well, perhaps, but nothing is easy especially when vast wealth is concerned.
This is such a joy to read, great characters in out-of-this-world situations, very funny and exciting, too. If you like your science fiction served up cold and very technical, this is not the book for you. But for adventure, crazy happenings with equally quirky people, all brilliantly and visually described, fun dialogue and lots of laughs, look no further - you will love this book.
Now I am off to buy the next in the series.
2 people found this helpful
 Report
Amazon Customer
2.0 out of 5 stars Off course I didn't like the fact that it was toooooo short
Reviewed in Australia on August 2, 2016
Verified Purchase
Off course I didn't like the fact that it was toooooo short, I know it was a spoiler, well I'm spoilt get the next ddew volumes out, I can only hold my breath for so long.
Report
Report an issue

Does this item contain inappropriate content?
Report
Do you believe that this item violates a copyright?
Report
Does this item contain quality or formatting issues?
Report