Kings of the World by Matt Pike

The galaxy is on the brink of war and only four dysfunctional, hormone-driven teenagers from Earth stand in its way. God help us all.

It didn’t take Cooper long to come to the conclusion that space sucks. It seems everyone there despises humans, everything’s too far away and the travel makes you heave. Worse still, Cooper’s stuck there with his best mate, The Ginge – who can’t tell where games end and reality begins - and two other former classmates who want to beat the crap out of him.

Oh yeah, and people, well… alien people are trying to kill them.

Space does have some good points. The boys can have anything they wish for, all they have to do is ask it … or think it. Plus they are now, somehow, Earth’s leaders - as in, more important than the President of the USA.

If Cooper can only stop the other boys from gorging on their every desire, chasing the most human looking alien women and fighting each other, he might convince everyone that humans aren’t the galactic equivalent of white trash.

But things are about to get a whole lot worse. War looms and Cooper and his inept sidekicks are caught in the middle. They, the Earth and the Galaxy will never be the same again.




Kings of the World is a young adult/adult sci-fi comedy adventure, it's the first novel published by Matt J Pike - an indie writer from Australia. Matt has a daughter with Rett Syndrome and the money from each sale that would have gone to agents and publishers will go to finding a cure for Rett syndrome.





"A fast-paced geekfest of sound and light"

Andrew Wright - Author of That Dark Inside





"It is quirky, off the wall and deliciously zany."

Robert Davidson - Author of The Tuzla Run


"A dazzling debut novel that leaves the reader begging for more."




Derek Pedley - Author of Dead By Friday



"This is great! I have to applaud you here and now.
Please take a bow, sir."


David McCaffrey - Author of Green Ore series





"This modern day coming of age story is very well crafted, so real, and so funny. Hilarious!"

Steve Ward - Author ofThe Test Pilot's Daughter series