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Rogue Moon

By: Gold Medal Books

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Science Fiction Novels (Gold Medal Books)

Last Stocked on 4/2/2016

Product Info

Title
Rogue Moon
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Algis Budrys
Publish Year
1960
Pages
176
Dimensions
4.25x7x.5"
NKG Part #
2147618742
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

Before 1969, every science fiction writer wrote his or her own version of the first Moon landing. I doubt if any carry the horror of Budrys' unsettling story.

During all recorded history, the Moon has hovered above our heads, a timeless symbol for lovers' ecstasy. Goddesses and Gibson Girls have tripped the light fantastic of her beams while sonneteers and scientists have scanned her changing phases.

Now man had actually reached the Moon, and on it the explorers found a structure, a formation so terrible and incomprehensible that it couldn't even be described in human terms. It was a thing that devoured men; that killed them again and again in torturous, unfathomable ways.

Earthbound are the only two men who could probe the thing: Al Barker, a homicidal maniac, whose loving mistress was death, and Dr. Edward Hawks, a scientific murderer, whose greatest mission was rebirth.