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A Fall of Moondust
by Arthur C. Clarke, Oliver Wyman
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A "superbly ingenious" classic of space survival from the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey—one of science fiction's most influential grandmasters (Daily Express).
Expanding the Moon's population hinges on building a thriving tourist industry. But when a prototype tourist craft called the Selene encounters a moonquake, the ship plummets under a vast body of liquid-fine moondust called the Sea of Thirst. While time runs out for the passengers and crew, rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the unpredictable conditions of the lunar environment.
Nominated for the Hugo Award in 1963, this brilliantly imagined story of human ingenuity and survival is a tour-de-force of psychological suspense and sustained dramatic tension sure to appeal to fans of Andy Weir's The Martian.
"The best book yet about man's most dramatic journey, the most exciting science fiction novel for years." —Evening Standard
"Expertly told and cruelly exciting to the end." —The Sunday Times
"Extremely good . . . with some superbly ingenious and exciting new twists." —Daily Express
Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke
From WikiquoteI can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have broken the glass of the fire-alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
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