"A Fall of Moondust" by Arthur C. Clarke. NY: Harcourt, Brace, (1961). 1st. US Ed. Jacket Art by Arthur Hawkins
The time is far enough into the future so that man has long been established on the Moon. Conducted tours for vacationers have become entirely common, and one of the high points of each tour is a cruise around the Sea of Thirst – a body of fine volcanic dust – in a specially designed vessel called the Selene. It’s an eerie voyage but one that is considered perfectly safe.
And then the old, dead Moon plays an appalling trick on the Selene, and there follows a most complicated and perilous rescue operation. How do you locate a small vessel buried beneath fifteen meters of dust in one of the craters of the Moon? If you find it, how do you rescue the passengers and crew? If you are on board, how do you feel and what do you do while brave men and expert technicians join forces, on your behalf, in a desperate race against time?
"A Fall of Moondust" by Arthur C. Clarke. NY: Harcourt, Brace, (1961). 1st. US Ed. Jacket Art by Arthur Hawkins
The time is far enough into the future so that man has long been established on the Moon. Conducted tours for vacationers have become entirely common, and one of the high points of each tour is a cruise around the Sea of Thirst – a body of fine volcanic dust – in a specially designed vessel called the Selene. It’s an eerie voyage but one that is considered perfectly safe.
And then the old, dead Moon plays an appalling trick on the Selene, and there follows a most complicated and perilous rescue operation. How do you locate a small vessel buried beneath fifteen meters of dust in one of the craters of the Moon? If you find it, how do you rescue the passengers and crew? If you are on board, how do you feel and what do you do while brave men and expert technicians join forces, on your behalf, in a desperate race against time?