HAVE YOU READ ONE OF THE BEST SF BOOKS OF 2022?
"A nail-biting thriller."-Publishers Weekly
"I loved it. Great 'hard' science fiction with convincing space
battles. "-Larry Niven
"Will delight and enthrall."-Library Journal
"A provocative science fiction novel."-Foreword Reviews
"A superb mind-expanding sci-fi novel!"-Grady Harp (Amazon Hall of Fame
Top100 Reviewer)
From the two-time Sidewise Award-winning
author of the acclaimed Clash of Eagles trilogy
comes an alternate 1979 where the US and the Soviets have permanent Moon
bases, orbiting space stations, and crewed spy satellites supported by
frequent rocket launches.
Apollo 32, commanded by career astronaut Vivian Carter, docks at NASA's
Columbia space station en route to its main mission: exploring the
volcanic Marius Hills region of the Moon. Vivian is caught in the
crossfire as four Soviet Soyuz craft appear without warning to assault
the orbiting station. In an unplanned and desperate move, Vivian
spacewalks through hard vacuum back to her Lunar Module and crew and
escapes right before the station falls into Soviet hands.
Their original mission scrubbed, Vivian and her crew are redirected to
land at Hadley Base, a NASA scientific outpost with a crew of eighteen.
But soon Hadley, too, will come under Soviet attack, forcing its unarmed
astronauts to daring acts of ingenuity and improvisation.
With multiple viewpoints, shifting from American to Soviet perspective,
from occupied space station to American Moon base under siege, to a
covert and blistering US Air Force military response, Hot Moon tells
the gripping story of a war in space that very nearly might have been.
