The Comet Caper: Book 4 in the Hal Junior series
About this ebook
When a comet sweeps far too close to Space Station Oberon, the impact knocks out communication and traps the adults on one side of the station and the kids on the other. Worse, the collision has knocked the space station out of orbit. Oberon is plunging toward the planet Gyris and it will burn up in the atmosphere long before help can arrive.
Locked out of the main flight deck and stuck in detention, Hal Junior isn’t one to sit back and wait. Teaming up with a crew of classmates—a video game ace, a math genius, and a resourceful engineer—Hal hatches a wild plan to power up a decommissioned cargo ship and push the entire space station back into safe orbit.
With failing thrusters, zero pilot training, and the clock ticking down to re-entry, can a group of kids do what the adults can't--or will they go down with the ship?
Hits the sweet spot for 9-12 year olds: fast-paced, empowering, technically engaging, and deeply fun.
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About the author
Simon Haynes lives in Western Australia, where he divides his time between herding deadly spiders, dodging drop bears, and making up wildly inaccurate sentences like this one.
By day he's an author. By night he's also an author.
He loves wry, dry humour, and his hobbies include daringly inserting the letter U into words where -- in some parts of the world at least -- this simply isn't the done thing.
As for his genre-spanning novels, they include epic fantasy (with robots), scifi comedy (also with robots), middle grade humour (featuring robots AND the wanton use of the letter U), as well as a series of historical mystery novels set in 1870's London. (No, of course there aren't robots in those. He's not completely out of his mind.)
When he's not writing Simon is usually renovating his house, sim-racing online, using twitter (@spacejock), gardening, tweaking his book covers, pondering the meaning of the universe and reading, and if you think it's easy doing all that at the same time you should see what he can do with a mug of coffee, a banana and a large bag of salt.
When he's not making outlandish claims he likes to count how many novels he's written, and how many genres he's written them in. (Lots and too many.)
Finally, if you want to hear Simon reading one of his award-winning stories, you'll find an enticement to join his newsletter here: spacejock.com.au/ML.html
