Book Details
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Book Name | Operation Bounce House |
| Author | Matt Dinniman |
| Publisher | Penguin Audio |
| Release Date | February 10, 2026 |
| Audiobook Duration | 10 hours and 48 minutes |
Book Summary
From the New York Times bestselling author of Dungeon Crawler Carl comes a relentless sci-fi adventure where survival becomes a form of entertainment.
Oliver Lewis never wanted much. He hoped to keep his family’s ranch alive on the frontier world of New Sonora, play music with his band, and squeeze a few more years out of the aging, semi-sentient farm bots that made colonist life possible. When the long-dormant transfer gate begins to reopen—promising restored communication and instant travel with Earth—Oliver believes it might finally make life easier.
He’s wrong.
Despite earlier promises of independence, Earth’s government has quietly signed off on an “eviction action,” outsourcing the job to the profit-obsessed mega-corporation Apex Industries. Rather than waste money deploying real troops, Apex finds a cheaper—and far more lucrative—solution: turn the invasion into a game.
Operation Bounce House invites Earth’s gamers to design, purchase, and remotely pilot war machines, unleashing them on a living planet for fun.
Soon, Oliver and his fellow colonists are fighting for survival against mechanized killers controlled by people treating genocide like a high-score challenge. Armed with little more than salvaged parts, ingenuity, and a cryptic old book passed down from his grandfather, Oliver refuses to surrender the only home he’s ever known.
Because when your world becomes someone else’s game, losing is not an option.