FIRES.

in SPACE.

There is no oxygen in space. so why, oh why, are there FIRES?!

What exactly is burning here? Please, oh author, inform me.

It is space. It is a vacuum. Even if a bunch of crap just got sucked off your busted-ass spaceship, pretty soon it’s going to be a vacuum again. Because space is a lot bigger than the inside of your little ship, so I don’t think your oxygen is going to make a big difference.

so, I repeat: FIRES. in SPACE.

Go fix your stupid ship (which should be a complete vacuum at this point, since you’ve had a bigass hole in your side for a while now) and stop worrying about the freaking fire. God. 

edit: oh my god. this is a stupid book. stupid, stupid book. I give up and I shall now go find some decent sci-fi in which the author had access to google.