SOJOURN IN SPACE

THE VACATION GUIDE TO THE SOLAR SYSTEM BY OLIVIA KOSKI & JANA GRCEVICH OUT 3 AUGUST (£19.99, SQUARE PEG).

You know where we really want to go on our holidays? Outer space, that’s where we want to go. Just imagine taking an airship through Venus’s lemon-yellow clouds, or enjoying breakfast while looking out onto Saturn’s swirling, hexagonal vortex! It’s hard to see how Marbella or Lanzarote could possibly compete.

But of course, any budding space tourist will need a guide book. Luckily, The Vacation Guide To The Solar System

is packed full of advice on where to go, what to pack, and what to do while you’re there. Featuring beautiful retroinspired illustrations by Steve Thomas, the book’s certainly a tongue-in- cheek affair, but the descriptions of the various destinations are all rooted in sound science. With human spaceflight back in the public eye, maybe it’s time to swap those shorts and sarongs for a spacesuit.