Cat Heads in Space: The Body Problem

By David Boles

Four disembodied cat heads drift through deep space in Life Helmets, searching for their missing bodies. A puppy head who has never had a body searches with them. The soup is stirring in the wrong direction. The quest continues.

Whiskerfluff is the captain because someone has to be. Mittens is the navigator who feels phantom paws he cannot explain. Cookie Kitty is the engineer whose soup has become an eighteen-chapter emergency. Skeedootle is a puppy head sealed in a Life Helmet calibrated for a species she does not belong to, and she is the bravest creature on the ship.

Together they cross a universe that is stranger than it has any right to be; encountering a translation device that works approximately, a nebula that grants impossible nerve connections, a bureaucracy that processes the dead, and a truth about their separation that recontextualizes everything they thought they were looking for.

Meanwhile, four headless bodies are building a ship out of claw marks, crossing the dark from the other direction, and refusing to wait.

Cat Heads in Space: The Body Problem is a philosophical comedy about embodiment, loss, and the cost of wholeness; born from the popular HumanMeme.com podcast series that ran for twenty-eight episodes and expanded into a novel that is funnier, stranger, and more heartfelt than it has any business being.

The quest continued. The bodies were out there. The soup was clockwise.

From the author of the Fractional Fiction series and the EleMenTs book series.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GNKDT6BJ
• ISBN13: 9798248414482
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.6" x 5.5"