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That premise alone was enough for me to check out the first novel in the series, 2013’s Just One Damned Thing After Another, eager to see if I had found a new fun series of comedic sci-fi books meant for history dorks. The premise of the novels is that these are specially trained historians who use special time-travelling pods to traverse history, letting them witness history first hand and become the most accurate historians ever.

The series is written by Jodi Taylor and revolves around a group of historians at a special organization called St Mary’s Institute of Historical Research. So, I was delighted when I came across a series of short novels that seemed to fit perfectly in that subgenre. I enjoy sci-fi in general, but a lot of it is terribly austere, and treated way too seriously, so when a story can kind of take the piss out of it and acknowledge that some of this stuff is incredibly silly and weird, I can get fully on the story’s wavelength. It’s probably built around my young love for Douglas Adams, mixed with an adoration of Futurama and Mystery Science Theater 3000, but for whatever reason if you have a story that’s going to go through the tropes of sci-fi, while treating it completely tongue-in-cheek, I’m probably going to have a good time. But there’s one genre that will almost always leap out at me. The Ineffectual Detective is a genre that I absolutely adore, just like Strange Noir, Historical Fiction, and Silly Spies. They’re comfort food for me, and they help inspire me creatively. There are certain genres of narrative that I’m constantly in the search of.