Operation Bounce House feature
February 27, 2026

Matt Dinniman’s Operation Bounce House Comes to Audio

By Penguin Random House Audio

Game on. Matt Dinniman, New York Times bestselling author of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, has a new novel out, and the response to the audiobook edition has been—how shall we say? Totally, completely, absolutely bonkers. Operation Bounce House is part action-packed SciFi, part gamer-fic-at-its-finest, and listeners are going wild for main character Oliver and his motley crew.

So who is this Oliver? Just a dude living his life on New Sonora, a planetary settlement of Earth. It’s a peaceful existance, until the ‘ol home planet re-opens communications…only to relay that New Sonora is about to be subject to an “eviction action.” And why simply annihilate the settlers of New Sonora when the big baddies on Earth can turn the proceedings into a game? Oliver has only his wits and a bucket of rusty parts to defend his friends and his planet…and audiobook listeners have the voices of Travis Baldree and Jeff Hays to pilot them through the wild ride that ensues. And so again we say, game on.

Listen to a clip from the Operation Bounce House audiobook: