BADASSTRONAUTS
(formerly Occupy Space)
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Back in 2011, I self-published a 145 page sci-fi novella called Occupy Space that I was really proud of. A couple of years ago I took it off the market to do a rewrite and get a new cover and now it’s back! Rewritten and recovered! Featuring an all-new introduction, a new cover by Doogie Horner, and the same words only in a better order and with some smarter words added!!!
You can own it on your ereader for only $4.99 or hold it in your hand for $11.99!
Badasstronauts is hard science fiction, which means that it's fiction about science and I probably got most of it wrong because I can’t science no matter how hard I try, and in this case I tried real hard. Written at the height of the Occupy movement, as the economic recession t-boned my home state of South Carolina and as the American space program turned the lights off and locked the door, I wanted to take all that harsh reality and turn it into something funny and hopeful. Maybe I succeeded? You be the judge!
WHAT’S IT ABOUT?
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 bad. With NASA’s budget cut to the bone there’s no one to bring him 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 seems to be cars on cinderblocks, he’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. 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 Reddie becomes a lightning rod for people who aren’t ready to lay down and die just yet. His farm is transformed into the promised land for misfits, drifters, rocket junkies, pyromaniacs, dreamers, science nerds, and astro-hippies who still believe that the future of America is in space. But it won’t be easy. Chances are good they’ll blow themselves up, get arrested, or kill each other long before they ever get into orbit.
Think of it as Gravity with more beer.