Dr. Dimension Series by John DeChancie, David Bischoff

The first in a new series of comic science fiction novels certain to appeal to the enormous reading public that loved Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's 1939, and Professor Demetrios Demopoulos is working on his new spacet ime machine when a shipment of astonishing future technology arrives. Soon he and his colleagues are on an around-the-universe jaunt.

Dr. Demopoulos and his ragtag crew must face down a threat to "life, the universe and everything"--after they repair their ship which has crashed on a giant trash planet. This series plays with the old sci-fi cliches of the pulps of the 1930s, yet in a modern, tongue-in-cheek and satirical manner that will delight and amuse readers.