We've seen Major Tom's foibles as a semi-depressing children book, but what if it was actually a by-the-book NASA operation? Let Killing My Lobster teach you why British people have been banned from the infinite of the cosmos.

Andrew Kolb was so taken with David Bowie's famed space travel ditty "Space Oddity" that he wrote it up as a charmingly tragic kid's book. You can read the whole thing here. Hopefully after you're done scarring your kids with this book, Kolb will illustrate a version of "Diamond Dogs" that will assuredly freak out the…