The Galactic Peace Books in Order

The Galactic Peace series takes Estrella's humour from fantasy kingdoms into deep space. It imagines a universe where countless species, factions, and machine intelligences share the stars, and where one organisation carries the impossible mandate of keeping them from blowing each other up.

That organisation is the Galactic Peace Committee. On paper it is an unmatched force for stability. In practice it is understaffed, overworked, and constantly two bad decisions away from interstellar incidents. Jake Smith is one of its diplomats. His tools are a practiced smile, a knack for improvisation, a shock staff, and a secretary who also happens to be a highly efficient killer robot.

In The Galactic Peace Committee, Jake is shuffled from one crisis to the next. He negotiates with petty officials who treat alien cultures like paperwork problems, calms angry delegates, and tries not to be dismembered by factions who think diplomacy is a sign of weakness. The book leans into absurd situations, like meetings that devolve into brawls and "peacekeeping" missions that accidentally rearrange entire cities.

Galactic Diplomacy builds on that foundation by digging into the fraught relationship between organics and machines. Jake finds himself in the middle of turf wars between gangs of heavily augmented citizens and pure AI collectives, cleans up after robots with plasma chainsaws for arms, and tries to talk down beings who believe that turning planets into shrapnel is a valid negotiating tactic. Between the big set pieces you get smaller, stranger encounters with volleyball obsessed aliens, bureaucrats who weaponise forms, and cultures whose idea of hospitality involves enthusiastic dismemberment.

Throughout the series Estrella keeps the tone fast and conversational. The technology is wild, but the problems feel familiar: clashing egos, impossible expectations, and the tiny personal decisions that stop or start wars. You can read either book on its own and enjoy a complete adventure, yet following Jake across the series rewards you with running jokes, recurring characters, and an ever more chaotic portrait of a galaxy that somehow keeps staggering toward peace.