Isaac Asimov's Moons: Seven Tales of Lunar Adventure by Gardner Dozois, Dell Magazines, Shelia Williams (With)

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Seven of science fiction's most celebrated authors show the secrets of the Earth's most mysterious satellite. These groundbreaking stories take readers from the dust of the surface to the deepest core of the human mind--where one will truly feel the moon's pull. Contributors include Terry Bisson, Geoffrey Landis, Tony Daniel, Robert Reed, Kim Stanley Robinson, Allen Steele, and R. Garcia y Robertson.

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This collection of seven well-crafted stories of lunar adventures are reprinted from Asimov's Science Fiction from the years 1988 to 1995. The authors are established science fiction writers, including the award-winning Terry Bisson, Geoffrey A. Landis, and Kim Stanley Robinson. While all the stories have the moon as a central locus, they are diverse in mood and style, varying from dystopian visions of the future to poetic love story, as found in Tony Daniel's Life on the Moon, to science fiction romp, as in The Werewolves of Luna by R. Garcia y Robertson, in which Ian McNeil is abducted by the Wolf Pack and taken to the gaming casinos on Tycho. Themes include alien communication (The Shadow Unknown by Bisson), slave mining (The Lunatics by Robinson), revisionist history (John Harper Wilson by Allen M. Steele, and the use of parasites as biological weapons (Waging Good by Robert Reed). Landis's A Walk in the Sun, which won both Nebula and Hugo awards, provides, perhaps, the closest look at the geography and terrain of the moon, experienced through Patricia Mulligan's "eleven thousand" kilometer walk across the lunar surface as she races the lunar night while waiting to be rescued. Many of the stories include "hard" science and technological details, but this is balanced in the collection by stories about love, revenge, human endurance, and survival, and by stories that have a philosophical bent. VOYA Codes: 4Q 2P S (Better than most, marred only by occasional lapses, For the YA with a special interest in the subject, Senior High-defined as grades 10 to 12).

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