Space-Crazed: The Tragedy of Billy Cull

by Ross Hughes

Jean-Paul Sartre said hell was being locked in a room forever with your best friends, but what do you do if you're stuck on a spaceship with them in deep space, surrounded by aliens who want to eat you?
The QED has hurled Engineer Billy Cull, his wife, Priscilla, and his best friend, Rod Davies, into an alternate reality where they are tasked with terraforming Neptune. 
When an alien spaceship hoves into view, however, their efforts are put on hold with their very lives on the line. 
Can they escape the alien menace?
Or is the greatest danger not outside the ship, but rather within?

191 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 3, 2021

Reviews

[Marcus · Rating 5 out of 5]

Accurate Title

This book/story has a lot of active parts. There's infidelity, jealousy, murder, psychological bullying, elements of mental breakdown. It doesn't read as a dry narrative, but has a lot of moving parts that the author weaves together into a very coherent, interesting, and engaging story. There are also several plot twists and an unexpected ending.

[MGB · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story is a tragedy. It documents a space trip and the stress on the crew from close quarters and long time gone from earth. Billy documents it for us from his viewpoint. He seems to be the only rational one on the crew.