BadAsstronauts

Grady Hendrix's novella is about backyard rocket jockeys trying to get into low earth orbit. With NASA's budget cut, one astronaut is stuck on the International Space Station, and Walter Reddie builds a rocket to rescue him. His farm becomes a haven for misfits, drifters, rocket junkies, pyromaniacs, dreamers, science nerds, and astro-hippies, but it won't be easy.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 166 pages
Publication date: 19 April 2022
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

From the New York Times bestselling author of My Best Friend's Exorcism, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, and The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix takes a break from horror and goes all-in on sci-fi in this novella about backyard rocket jockeys trying to get into low earth orbit.

Melville, South Carolina, was out of money, it was out of jobs, it was out of hope, and today it was out of astronauts. There were only two to begin with, and now one is stuck on the abandoned International Space Station after his mission went south. With NASA's budget cut to the bone, there's no one to bring him back home, so everyone is only too happy to ignore this embarrassing sign of American failure and just let him die. But his cousin, Walter Reddie, isn't going to let that happen.

Tanked on vodka, living on a farm whose only crop is cars on cinderblocks, Walter is a wash-out from the Shuttle Program and he'll be damned if he's going to let his cousin die in the sky like a dog. And so he begins to build a rocket. If America won't rescue its astronauts, he'll do it himself.

Violating numerous laws, good taste, common sense, logic, and reason, Walter becomes a lightning rod for people who aren't ready to give up. His farm is transformed into the promised land for misfits, drifters, rocket junkies, pyromaniacs, dreamers, science nerds, and astro-hippies who believe that space shouldn't just be for billionaires. But it won't be easy. Chances are good they'll blow themselves up, get arrested, or kill each other before they ever get into orbit.

Weight: 206g
Dimension: 139 x 216 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781625675583