Science fiction with both feet on the Moon

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Novels where the Moon stops being something you gaze at from the balcony. Here you have to walk on it, and it's not a friendly place.

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The 8 books on this stack

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  • Algis Budrys 1991

    Why it's on the stack

    It messes with your head

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    Shortlisted for the 1961 Hugo Award, Rogue Moon is the disquieting and story of what happens when monstrous scientific ambition is matched by human obsession.

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  • H. G. Wells 2015

    Why it's on the stack

    Full of big ideas · alien contact

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    The First Men in the Moon is a scientific romance by the English author H. G. Wells, originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from December 1900 to August 1901 and published in hardcover in 1901…

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  • Arthur C. Clarke 2015

    Why it's on the stack

    You'll keep turning it over for days · espionage

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    This "marvelous lunar espionage thriller" by the science fiction grandmaster and author of 2001: A Space Odyssey "packs plenty of punch" (SFReviews.net).

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  • Kim Stanley Robinson 2018

    Why it's on the stack

    Full of big ideas

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    "It is twenty-five years since China established the first colony on the moon, and the lives of three people are about to collide.

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  • Ian McDonald 2016

    Why it's on the stack

    A big story that sweeps you along · nobody is entirely good

    The scions of a falling house navigate a world of corporate warfare to maintain their family's status on the Moon in this thrilling space opera.

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  • Robert A. Heinlein 2011

    Why it's on the stack

    Full of big ideas · dystopia

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    For fans of Artemis—the visionary tour de force from “one of the grand masters of science fiction” (The Wall Street Journal).

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  • Andy Weir 2017

    Why it's on the stack

    Nothing is quite what it seems · funny, and it bites

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the renowned author of Project Hail Mary and The Martian comes a “propulsive” (NPR) tale of science, suspense, and humor—a heist story set on the moon.

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  • Guerras Lunares

    ES

    J. C. Plaza and Julio Embid 2026 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    Full of big ideas

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    We only have this synopsis in Spanish.

    Desde el vacío espacial, una madre cambiará el curso de la historia.

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