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San Antonio / Tuesday
Comic sci-fi / NASA panic / underdog crew
Fatronauts
A comic sci-fi survival mission about the crew NASA never expected to need, and the bodies that turn out to be built for deep space.
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74.3Kwords in the current full draft
40story sections in the current manuscript
v4.17current canonical manuscript
Book 1first mission in the Fatronauts universe
Story moments
Four scenes that make the mission feel real before a reader opens the book.
Built from the manuscript beats: Maya's recruitment shock, her microscopic threadwork, the launch from the old Apollo pad, and the Celestial Harmony IV rescue.
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0.4mm hook / metallic thread
The impossible flag
The art teacher with micro-surgical patience turns invisible thread into a mission banner fine enough to need a microscope.
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Apollo 11 pad / Cushion Crew
Go for launch
Five custom suits, one anomalous hold, and a rocket leaving Florida hard enough to make the old selection rules look very small.
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Deep-space rescue / no flags in oxygen
Celestial Harmony IV
The dying Chinese ship comes within three meters, the docking ring holds, and the crew spends its safety net on one survivor.The pitch
A body-positive space survival comedy with a proper engine under the hood.
Fatronauts is built for indie sci-fi readers who like the science to be just plausible enough and the people messy enough to care about.
It is funny, but the joke is not the crew. The joke is the institution that kept optimizing for the wrong definition of perfect.
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The right stuff was not wrong. It was incomplete.
After a string of deep-space failures, Dr. Evelyn Chen follows the data to a conclusion that could end her career: the leanest bodies may not be the safest bodies for the mission ahead.
What follows is NASA politics, strange training, found family, and a crew forced to prove that survival is not always photogenic.
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