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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...
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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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...
6) 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.
7) Kangaroo too
Author
Series
Kangaroo novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"Set in the same world as Waypoint Kangaroo, Curtis C. Chen's Kangaroo Too is bursting with adrenaline and intrigue in this unique outer space adventure. On the way home from his latest mission, secret agent Kangaroo's spacecraft is wrecked by a rogue mining robot. The agency tracks the bot back to the Moon, where a retired asteroid miner--code named 'Clementine'--might have information about who's behind the sabotage. Clementine will only deal with...
9) 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.
10) 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.
12) 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.
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
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"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...
15) 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
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...
Author
Series
Eighth continent volume 1
Publisher
Aethon Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A lowly construction worker on the Moon is Earth's only chance... Nick Morrison always wanted to be an astronaut. When a startup company recruits him to build a lunar launch system at the Moon's south pole, Nick gladly leaves behind his troubled life on Earth-but Nick doesn't know that the company is in financial and legal trouble. Deprived of support from Earth, the team on the Moon must figure out how to survive on their own. Worse yet, there's...
Author
Series
Dream Park volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Set in the year 2085, "The Moon Maze Game" tells the story of a deadly live-action role-playing game conducted on the Moon itself.
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
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"The moon has turned into cheese. Now humanity has to deal with it. For some it's an opportunity. For others it's a moment to question their faith: In God, in science, in everything. Still others try to keep the world running in the face of absurdity and uncertainty. And then there are the billions looking to the sky and wondering how a thing that was always just there is now... something absolutely impossible. Astronauts and billionaires, comedians...
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