Year Two (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798192718322)

The stars have never been particularly reliable.

But this year, they've gone completely off the rails.

Welcome back to the strangest horoscope ever written.

The twelve zodiac signs are once again attempting to navigate another year of inexplicable predictions, bizarre cosmic events and increasingly questionable advice. Taurus has somehow become an X-factor. Pisces refuses to leave. Aquarius appears suspiciously competent. A goose has become involved in matters it absolutely shouldn't understand. And somewhere along the way, an echidna starts asking questions that nobody wants answered.

Then there's Keith.

Keith was supposed to be the man who keeps everything running.

He fixes things. He makes soup. He answers the telephone. He deals with cosmic bureaucracy. He occasionally saves reality, usually without being properly informed that this is what he's doing.

And this year, Keith discovers something rather troubling:

The universe may not actually need him.

As mysterious phones ring, strange doors open, empty soup cans appear from nowhere and a receptionist takes a perfectly reasonable holiday to Alpha Centauri, the signs begin to uncover a much larger mystery lurking beneath their seemingly nonsensical year.

Who-or what-is Mystery Sign Thirteen?

Why does everyone keep mentioning Maintenance?

Who is really behind the telephone?

Why is Orville, a devoted orangutan with a troubling tendency to consider Keith edible, suddenly being given increasingly important responsibilities?

And what, exactly, happened to the other Keiths?

By the time the year reaches its final weeks, the strange predictions have become something much bigger: a story about identity, memory, friendship, responsibility and the terrifying possibility of discovering that you don't have to be indispensable to matter.

Year Two is a surreal, absurd and unexpectedly heartfelt journey through twelve months of cosmic nonsense, existential questions, soup, ducks, bureaucracy and one increasingly confused goose.

The stars may have a plan.

Keith would really rather they didn't.

Welcome to Year Two.

Bring soup.