Why You'll Love This
A guy hits something invisible with his delivery truck — and somehow that's how Earth's survival ends up in his hands.
- Great if you want: Bobiverse-style sci-fi with slacker heroes and galactic stakes
- The experience: fast, funny, and propulsive — reads like a weekend binge
- The writing: Taylor keeps the humor sharp without undercutting the tension
- Skip if: you prefer hard sci-fi over comedy-driven adventure
About This Book
When Jack Kernigan's delivery truck hits something large, invisible, and decidedly not from Earth, his already-derailed life takes a turn he never could have mapped. What follows is a story about three ordinary young adults — the kind still figuring out who they are — who get dragged into something with genuinely planetary consequences. Taylor taps into a specific kind of anxiety here: the fear of being unremarkable, of life passing you by, colliding head-on with the terror of being needed for something enormous. The stakes are real, but so is the emotional core underneath them.
Taylor has built his reputation on science fiction that moves fast without sacrificing warmth, and Roadkill delivers that same balance in a tighter, more propulsive package. The banter between the three leads feels lived-in rather than written, and the pacing keeps pages turning without ever feeling rushed. Taylor has a gift for grounding genuinely strange ideas in the textures of ordinary life — dead-end jobs, small-town Ohio, friendships forged from shared mediocrity — which makes the escalating strangeness land harder than it otherwise would.
