Life in Space & Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

In Justin Becker’s Life in Space, a family unit deals with a father whose obsession with sending his family into space has made for quite a fascinating home-life situation.

In David Lawson’s Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, a video gamer in his early 20s spends most of his days in his parent’s basement — until he trips and falls into love with a girl. Yet finds himself in a situation he isn’t quite sure how to work with when the feeling is mutual.