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2) Omon Ra
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A Soviet cosmonaut is ordered to secretly pilot a supposedly unmanned expedition to the moon, after which he is to die, to maintain the myth of unmanned space flights. A satire by the author of Yellow Arrow.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
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Language
English
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For fans of Artemis--The visionary tour de force from "one of the grand masters of science fiction" ( The Wall Street Journal ). Widely acknowledged as one of Robert A. Heinlein's greatest works, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress rose from the golden age of science fiction to become an undisputed classic--and a touchstone for the philosophy of personal responsibility and political freedom. A revolution on a lunar penal colony--aided by a self-aware supercomputer--provides...
5) Many moons
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace and company
Pub. Date
[1943]
Language
English
Description
Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's one wish.
Author
Publisher
Tor/A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Curt Newton has spent most of his life hidden from the rest of humankind, being raised by a robot, an android, and the disembodied brain of a renowned scientist. This unlikely trio of guardians has kept his existence a closely guarded secret after the murder of Curt's parents. Curt's innate curiosity and nose for trouble inadvertently lead him into a plot to destabilize the Solar Coalition and assassinate the president. There's only one way to uncover...
8) Hombre luna
Author
Publisher
Libros del Zorro Rojo
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
The man in the moon outwits the police in several escapades on Earth with the help of his waxing and waning powers and the friendship of a 300-year-old scientist.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
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"Edgar Hopkins is a retired math teacher in his mid-fifties with a strong sense of self-importance, whose greatest pride in life is winning poultry breeding contests. When not meticulously caring for his Bantam, Edgar is an active member of the British Lunar Society. Thanks to that affiliation, Edgar becomes one of the first people to learn the moon is on a collision course, headed towards Earth. Members of the society are sworn to secrecy but eventually...
11) The second angel
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A virus is decimating the population of Earth and the only defense is a blood transfusion. A plot is hatched to rob a blood bank on the moon and sell its untainted blood on the black market. An expensive operation, requiring lots of high tech, but it promises to earn a fortune.
14) Deja doomed
Author
Publisher
Caezik SF & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
On the Moon's far side, shielded from Earth's radio cacophony, Americans are building a radio-astronomy observatory. Russians sift the dust of a lunar "sea" for helium-3 to run future fusion reactors. Commercial robots, remotely operated from Earth, roam the Moon's near side in a hunt for mineral wealth. Why chase distant asteroids for precious metals? Onetime asteroids must lie close beneath the much-bombarded lunar surface. Then a prospecting robot...
15) Artemisa
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
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Description
Augmenting her limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the Moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime, only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city.
Aumentando sus ingresos limitados mediante el contrabando de contrabando para sobrevivir en la rica ciudad de la Luna de Artemisa, Jazz acepta cometer lo que parece ser un crimen perfecto y lucrativo, solo para...
16) Luna: new moon
Author
Series
Luna novels (Ian McDonald) volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The Moon wants to kill you. Whether it's being unable to pay your per diem for your allotted food, water, and air, or you just get caught up in a fight between the Moon's ruling corporations, the Five Dragons. You must fight for every inch you want to gain in the Moon's near feudal society. And that is just what Adriana Corta did. As the leader of the Moon's newest "dragon," Adriana has wrested control of the Moon's Helium-3 industry from the Mackenzie...
Author
Publisher
CamCat Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Sabotage, murder, cover-ups. Just another day on the Moon. After 35 years of living on the Moon, cranky old oxygen farmer Millennium Harrison has stumbled onto a hidden facility in the shadows of the Slayton Ridge Exclusion Zone with a radiation leak and a deadly secret. Mil's discovery leads to the death of a young astronaut, sabotage, murder, and cover-ups that may go all the way to the Chief Administrator of the space agency. Unfortunately, she...
Author
Series
Luna novels (Ian McDonald) volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A hundred years in the future, a war wages between the Five Dragons--five families who control the Moon's leading industrial companies. Each clan does everything in their power to claw their way to the top of the food chain--marriages of convenience, corporate espionage, kidnapping, and mass assassinations. Through ingenious political manipulation and sheer force of will, Lucas Cortas rises from the ashes of corporate defeat and seizes control of...
19) Ocean of storms
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In the near future, political tensions between the United States and China are at an all-time high. Then a catastrophic explosion on the moon cleaves a vast gash in the lunar surface, and the massive electromagnetic pulse it unleashes obliterates Earths electrical infrastructure. To plumb the depths of the newly created lunar fissure and excavate the source of the power surge, the feuding nations are forced to cooperate on a high-risk mission...
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the middle of the twenty-second century, over three million people live in underground cities below the moon's surface. One city-state, the Society of Cousins, is a matriarchy, where men are supported in any career choice, but no right to vote-and tensions are beginning to flare as outside political intrigues increase. After participating in a rebellion that caused his mother's death, Erno has been exiled from the Society of Cousins. Now, he is...
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