Revelations (2020)

These books portrayed a deep skepticism about the American space program and its perversion into a cold war propaganda weapon to be abandoned soon after its cardinal point-making achievement was realized, landing on the moon before the Russians, who had headed the race. Until then, there was much controversy when Beyond Apollo won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the final book of the trilogy. his blackened imagery of astronauts caught in existential snares doubting their worth casting even further doubt on if the landings actually took place with the opposite of what the recently passed Campbell would have admired. These were amongst the most jarring and iconoclastic SF novels ever.