THE STAR-GAZER’S GUIDE TO NOT FALLING UP

Kallan is having a very bad Tuesday.

It started with his breakfast toast trying to escape into the ventilation shaft. It ended with the entire SS Star-Gazer space station flipping ninety degrees—turning the cafeteria into a vertical cliffside and the cream-of-mushroom soup into a deadly, forty-foot waterfall.

The adults call it a "system glitch," but thirteen-year-old Kallan and his genius younger sister, Raina, know the truth. The station is infested with Gravity Gremlins—invisible, static-charged pests from another dimension that don't just eat wires; they eat the very laws of physics.

With the station’s AI losing its mind and the grown-ups incapacitated by "Gravity Sickness," the only thing standing between the crew and a permanent trip into the vacuum of space is:

• A pair of sneakers held together by magnetic coils and an unholy amount of silver duct tape.

• A stinky-star trap made from a stolen toaster and concentrated pimento cheese.

• Leelan, the chaotic detention-center engineer who thinks safety warnings are just "suggestions."

As the Gremlins begin to huddle in Sector 7, creating a singularity that threatens to swallow the station whole, Kallan must find the courage to lead his misfit crew into the vents. But when they discover the Gremlins aren't monsters—just lost, hungry babies trying to find their way home—Kallan and Raina must decide what’s more important: following the rules, or saving the very creatures that turned their world upside down.

Gravity is optional. Survival is mandatory