From 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.
Chances are good they\'ll blow themselves up, get arrested, or kill each other before they ever get into orbit..
But it won\'t be easy.
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.
Violating numerous laws, good taste, common sense, logic, and reason, Walter becomes a lightning rod for people who aren\'t ready to give up.
If America won\'t rescue its astronauts, he\'ll do it himself.
And so he begins to build a rocket.
Tanked on vodka, living on a farm whose only crop is cars on cinderblocks, Walter\'s 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.
But his cousin, Walter Reddie, isn\'t going to let that happen.
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.
There were only two to begin with, and now one is stuck on the abandoned International Space Station after his mission went south.
Melville, South Carolina was out of money, it was out of jobs, it was out of hope, and today it was out of astronauts.
From 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
