Out to Launch

In this hilarious all new off-the-planet series, a reality TV director comes up with the perfect show idea: sending a family to live on the moon!

Radius Limpfast is one of the world’s richest men. His reality TV shows have made him billions. The next series is always greater than the one before, and yet he is never satisfied. Then one night, after a particularly creative bacon curry, Radius dreams up the ultimate reality show. No matter whatever anyone else comes up with, they will never be able to top it. Radius is going to send a family to the moon. Limpfast TV will pick an ordinary family, just like yours, build a rocket and a big glass dome, and put them all together on the moon. The whole world will tune in to watch. This will be reality TV at its finest. What could possibly go wrong?

Colin Thompson is the author and illustrator of more than 65 books, including The Floods series, The Last Alchemist, and The Paradise Garden. He has received an Aurealis Award for How to Live Forever, CBCA Picture Book of the Year for The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley, and CBCA Honour Book and the Family Therapists' Award for The Big Little Book of Happy Sadness.