A Fall of Moondust
An early Arthur C. Clarke novel that takes place on the Moon. The setting is a future in which the Moon has become a tourist destination, and one of the attractions is a huge dust bowl on which one can sightsee from a "dust cruiser". Then there's a serious accident...... This is an excellent hard SF adventure.
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- Yes. The atmosphere is completely wrong. Ignore that and the rest is pretty good.
As for recommendations, I'd say loads of the books by Arthur C. Clarke. Try "A fall of moondust".
- Two suggestions:
Arthur C. Clarke's "A Fall of Moondust". https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149059.A_Fall_of_Moondus...
- This might be a bit dated now, but I remember enjoying it years ago.
Buzz Aldrin's "Men From Earth" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1369808.Men_from_Earth
- I read ULG's 'The Dispossessed' and while the writing is great, it more feels like social commentary with a mild flavour of sci-fi.
I suppose am struggling to articulate this better.
To give you a contrast, take Arthur C Clarke, a contemporary of hers. Consider his book 'A Fall of Moondust' (one of my favourites).
In ACC's book, there is some core peculiarity of the fundamental nature of the world that the story is entirely based on. The possibilities stemming from that one oddity is interesting from a scientific perspective.
Having said that, the characters in that book are nothing to write home about. They serve the necessary function for the plot but nothing too memorable.
ULG's plot on the other hand has no distinctive scientifically interesting peculiarity that it seems to be built on. It might as well have occurred on Earth just as it does in 'Anarres' or 'Urras'.
It feels like ULG's book is more about people/political theory/social commentary/human condition than any scientifically intriguing theory.
It's still a good read I guess, but it didn't scratch my sci-fi itch.
- I cannot help but think of the novel “A Fall of Moondust” by Arthur C. Clarke.
- Looks like Arthur C. Clarke guessed correctly in his sci-fi novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fall_of_Moondust, where a moonquake causes problems to a "sand-cruiser" full of tourists.
- But could it hide a filmset to do a new version of the fake moon landings?
This is very much the stuff of some of my childhood sci-fi reading from several decades ago. We don't nee to reprise "A Fall of Moondust" however...
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