The Naming of Planets

When you lose connection to everywhere, every reality and in every present; how do you make frents?
The Naming of Planets is a multi-verse action adventure story with the Higgs Boson, spiders, shape shifting slugs, evil mathematics, insecure squid, annoying tinsel, smallgoods, singing and lists.
Athol is a young lad with synaesthesia. He tastes numbers, he smells feelings and he sees 21 extra primary colours. He loves sausages, outer space and his guitar... in no particular order.
When the International Astronomical Union (IAU) announces a 'Naming of Planets' competition, he reckons he can win.
The inhabitants of a distant alien world decide that they want to help so they pop on over to Earth and then it just gets a bit odd. They also need Athol to name them too, defeat the emptiness and reconnect the multi-verse.
Questions around:

A long ago act of deception.

The utter desolation of connection.

The loss of the most powerful element in the...