Earthlight (Arthur C. Clarke Assortment)

This “marvelous lunar espionage thriller” by the science fiction grandmaster and writer of 2001: A House Odyssey “packs loads of punch” (SFReviews.web).

 

200 years after touchdown on the Moon, mankind has moved additional out into the photo voltaic system. With everlasting settlements now established on the Moon, Venus, and Mars, the inhabitants of those colonies have fashioned a political alliance known as the Federation.

 

On the Moon, a authorities agent from Earth is monitoring a suspected spy at a outstanding observatory. His mission is sophisticated by the rise in tensions between Earth’s authorities and the Federation over entry to uncommon heavy metals. Because the agent finds himself locked in a battle for all times and dying on the eerie, lunar panorama, the bigger battle explodes throughout area, leaving mankind’s future unsure.

 

First revealed in 1955, this suspense-filled area opera by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Corridor of Fame inductee was a major forerunner of tv hits like
Star Trek and
The Expanse.