The plot is intricate, the science just around the corner, and the characters work well in their environment – not to mention it gets ‘hold your breath’ exciting.
For thousands of years mankind has looked at the moon and imagined. Many imagined romance, some imagined science, others imagined freedom and exploration. Still others have imagined an outpost for the newest and best of what man has to offer. But others have imagined conquest: a base of operations for war from space.
In Shadow on the Moon all of these things come together – the best and the worst of what dreamers dream. The dream of a society run by consensus based on full disclosure. The dream of a colonized moon. A moon that is financially independent by providing high temperature superconductors to maximize earth’s power grid. The dream of dogma free scientific research aimed at survival on the moon.
The dream of lunar independence – kept alive through a precarious balance of autonomy from earth’s ancient religious and political quagmires -exists through the delicate use of economics and distance. However, in this hallmark of personal freedom lays an avenue for hidden hatreds and fanatic idealism. Out of sight and beneath the surface, it builds into a conquering force bent on domination of the earth through strategic control of the moon.
Lazarus Sheffield joins into a free society that suddenly has to fight for its life. With nothing more militant than a police force, the moon must defend itself and its freedom from the forces of ruthless military domination. In this space thriller, the reader finds a mirror of today’s problems transplanted to an airless world where ecology is king and every resource is precious. A world created by pioneers whose only religion is humanitarian treatment of each other in their struggle to survive in space. The heroes that conquered the moon must now defend it and the society they created. Thankfully, they have a few tricks up their sleeve!
Shadow on the Moon by Charles Lesher
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