They look out at the slowly sinking crescent Earth just above the horizon, lonely mountains nearby, complete silence except for the slight sound of the vessel's engine, disturbs the peace.

With a full load twenty -two people on board, on an ordinary voyage across the vast, dark, empty and eerie terrain in the long lunar night.

Soon to be a couple ? In the time to come old- fashioned words make a comeback, the Captain is a little afraid of the equally competent and attractive Sue. In charge of Selene, is the unambitious but capable Captain Pat Harris and his crew, consisting of just a stewardess Miss Sue Wilkins. Only one of these 'boats,' has been built if successful others will follow you would think. Selene (Moon Goddess) a hovercraft designed to float over the lunar surface especially on the treacherous Sea of Thirst, above the moondust. Tourism is a key to financial survival on this remote hostile world. The Earth's Moon in the mid 21st Century this frontier land is slowly growing, the future is in its tranquil cities under lunar domes ( Clavius City, population 52,647). Clarke also won the Nebula Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1972, 19, the Hugo Award of the World Science Fiction Convention in 19, and in 1986 became Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America.

Campbell Award for his novel Rendezvous With Rama. He is past Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, a member of the Academy of Astronautics, the Royal Astronomical Society, and many other scientific organizations.Īuthor of over fifty books, his numerous awards include the 1961 Kalinga Prize, the AAAS-Westinghouse science writing prize, the Bradford Washburn Award, and the John W. He is best known for the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he co-created with the assistance of Stanley Kubrick.Ĭlarke was a graduate of King's College, London where he obtained First Class Honours in Physics and Mathematics. He spent the first half of his life in England, where he served in World War Two as a radar operator, before emigrating to Ceylon in 1956. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th century science fiction.

A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke