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0330023128

(ISBN-13: 9780330023122)

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A Fall Of Moondust

For a million years the bubble had been growing, like a vast abscess, below the root of the mountains. Now the abscess was about to burst. Captain Harris had left the controls on autopilot and was talking to the front row of passengers as the first tremor shook the boat. For a fraction of a second he wondered if a fan blade had hit some submerged obstacle; then, quite literally, the bottom fell out of his world. It fell slowly, as all things must upon the Moon. The sea was alive and moving . . . Every stage of that nightmare transformation was pitilessly illuminated by the earth light, until the crater was so deep that its firewall was completely lost in shadow, and it seemed as if Selene were racing into a curving crescent of utter blackness – an arc of annihilation. In darkness and in silence, they were sinking into the Moon. . . .

The setting ist the Moon in the 21st century and it is depicted with brillant imagination.

But the vital core of the novel is this: will the crew and passengers of the Dust-sruiser Selene, buried fifteen metres down in the Sea of Thirst, be rescued before half a dozen possible catastrophes overcome them?

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About the author:

Arthur Charles Clarke was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th century science fiction. He spent the first half of his life in England, where he served in World War Two as a radar operator, before emigrating to Ceylon in 1956. He is best known for the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he co-created with the assistance of Stanley Kubrick.

Clarke was a graduate of King's College, London where he obtained First Class Honours in Physics and Mathematics. He is past Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, a member of the Academy of Astronautics, the Royal Astronomical Society, and many other scientific organizations.

Author of over fifty books, his numerous awards include the 1961 Kalinga Prize, the AAAS-Westinghouse science writing prize, the Bradford Washburn Award, and the John W. Campbell Award for his novel Rendezvous With Rama. Clarke also won the Nebula Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1972, 1974 and 1979, the Hugo Award of the World Science Fiction Convention in 1974 and 1980, and in 1986 became Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He was awarded the CBE in 1989.

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Quotes from Arthur C. Clarke:
"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." — Arthur C. Clarke

"I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here." — Arthur C. Clarke

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." — Arthur C. Clarke

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." — Arthur C. Clarke (Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible)

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Rieviews from the press:

„The colossus of science fiction.“ - New York Times

„Superbly ingenious and exciting new twists.“ - Daily Express

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Reviews from readers:

"The Earth's Moon in the mid 21st Century this frontier land is slowly growing , the future is in its tranquil cities under lunar domes ( Clavius City, population 52,647) . Tourism is a key to financial survival on this remote hostile world. Selene (Moon Goddess) a hovercraft designed to float over the lunar surface especially on the treacherous Sea of Thirst, above the moondust. Only one of these "boats," has been built if successful others will follow you would think . In charge of Selene, is the unambitious but capable Captain Pat Harris and his crew, consisting of just a stewardess Miss Sue Wilkins. Soon to be a couple ? In the time to come old- fashioned words make a comeback, the Captain is a little afraid of the equally competent and attractive Sue. With a full load twenty -two people on board, on an ordinary voyage across the vast, dark, empty and eerie terrain in the long lunar night. They look out at the slowly sinking crescent Earth just above the horizon, lonely mountains nearby, complete silence except for the slight sound of the vessel's engine, disturbs the peace. Passing underneath the moondust looking like a calm liquid sea, only the boat's bright lights to show the stark scenery, with the chilly temperature of more than 200 below zero Fahrenheit, outside ... Somehow the rather ugly gray moonscape is beautiful, but the universe is a violent place a small moonquake occurs and the Selene quietly disappears, to the bottom of the waterless dusty, Sea of Thirst as if back on one of Earth's Oceans not an airless desert... Maybe the thrill seeking tourists should have stayed home, but there is always hope that these brave men and women can be saved, otherwise the Selene becomes just another lost tomb. They wait, with very high expectations ..." - Henry Avila


"Oh this was sooo close to 5 stars. It must be, oh gosh, almost 40 years since I read this, and boy did I enjoy it. Arthur C is a magnificent storyteller and an excellent character builder.

It is an excellent book, and given that I have always enjoyed Arthur C , I have to wonder why I have not read more (often). I have probably read most of his books, but not for a while, so it is about time I revisited my Arthur C library.

(Oh so so so close to 5 stars)" - Adrian
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