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The Moon Destroyers
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- GenresScience Fiction
32 pages, Paperback
First published October 11, 2012
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October 5, 2021
This was such a fun read. You just have to overlook the stupidity of the plot, and the science, and well pretty much everything. I like a bit of nonsense, even when it’s unintentional.
January 29, 2016
When New York is destroyed in an earthquake, a young scientist who invents a substance called hexoxen, which turns matter into vapour, puts forward a radical plan to combat the effects of the tides on the Earth's plates: "Destroy the moon!"
The mission is planned with all the naivety you would expect from a story from the 1930s. No one bothers to question the consequences of doing away with the Moon (catastrophic for life in the oceans and for the Earth's orbit), they don't figure out a landing site until they get there, and the process of recruitment could have been a touch more rigarous ("he had mentioned some knowledge of interplanetary travel, and we needed men.")
Indeed that last oversight costs them as a saboteur ends up on the flight. Nor is that the only problem they encounter with rogues, because when they get to their destination they find it inhabited by space pirates who have intercepting other ships on their way to Mars, such as one which had the hero's girlfriend onboard.
Does the Moon buy the farm?
Should you care?
Perhap not, but it will only take you twenty minutes to find out, for free on the Gutenberg site.
The mission is planned with all the naivety you would expect from a story from the 1930s. No one bothers to question the consequences of doing away with the Moon (catastrophic for life in the oceans and for the Earth's orbit), they don't figure out a landing site until they get there, and the process of recruitment could have been a touch more rigarous ("he had mentioned some knowledge of interplanetary travel, and we needed men.")
Indeed that last oversight costs them as a saboteur ends up on the flight. Nor is that the only problem they encounter with rogues, because when they get to their destination they find it inhabited by space pirates who have intercepting other ships on their way to Mars, such as one which had the hero's girlfriend onboard.
Does the Moon buy the farm?
Should you care?
Perhap not, but it will only take you twenty minutes to find out, for free on the Gutenberg site.
July 10, 2018
This story is a good read
For the time period that this was written, it is a fast paced read. A little light on the science, but what the heck, it flows well.
For the time period that this was written, it is a fast paced read. A little light on the science, but what the heck, it flows well.
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