Loved itit's a res Mission it's a survival story it's kind of tense add some cool hard SciFi in there to explain why it should be so tense and I think it works really well I had a fun time with this one
A Fall of Moondust (1961)
Others: Positive 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.
- ISBN:
- 9780575060036
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- 224 pages
Genres: science fiction
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