Questions tagged [moon]
The Moon, also known as Luna, is Earth's only known permanent natural satellite.
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SciFi book, about a human colony on the moon. A central computer becomes sentient and forms an alliance or teams up with the main character
SciFi book, about a human colony on the moon. A central computer becomes sentient and forms an alliance or teams up with the main character.
Read 40-50 yr ago. Maybe school suggested it for general ...
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How long are the lunar cycles in Elder Scrolls?
When doing research on Khajiit and learning about their Furstocks, I started wondering if there was a predictable lunar cycle in the elder scrolls that you could put on calenders and use to predict ...
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Short story about driving remotely operated vehicles on moon. A Student(?) drives one to rescue shuttle crash victim
Man has established bases on the Moon. A lot of work is done with remotely operated vehicles (R.O.V.s) exploring, mining, hauling, and transportation. (Like buses or taxis. I'm not sure about this one....
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Old YA book. (60s?) Young man wants to become a rocket ship pilot
YA USA hardback library book. 1960s or before. Very Heinlein YA type story, but not one of his books.
I distinctly remember the opening chapter. A young man is playing baseball. Maybe a college or ...
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1950s-ish novels with spacecraft drives that are concentric rings
Looking for the name of the author of a series of short novels (at least two in the series) where spacecraft engines are concentric rings (some sort of reactionless drive?) that gave off a glow when ...
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Book series about Moon base
Book series following life of a man from pilot, to first man to have sex in space, then later as an astronaut he kills a female astronaut, later he becomes leader of Moon base who has conflict with ...
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Short story where a woman on the moon turns off the hologram trees and garden [duplicate]
Does anyone recognise this story? It was in a sci-fi anthology I found in a charity shop and have since lost.
A woman lives with her husband in a town on the moon. He goes to work every day and she is ...
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Book about a young girl with something to do with the Moon
I remember very few details about the book. I read it in the 1990s. I remember it had a young girl who lives in a clan, maybe? There was something to do with the Moon. I think they had advanced ...
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1990s novel with sleeping alien machine inside the moon that teleports to another galaxy
I read a book a few years ago that looked like a mass-market paperback from the 1990s or so.
It was about humans just barely colonizing our own solar system and doing wormhole experiments around Pluto/...
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Radio drama astronauts returning from the moon to a nuclear war on earth
Trying to identify a radio drama about astronauts returning to earth on a mission to the moon. One of the astronauts is musing about how the craters on the moon resemble the blast craters at atomic ...
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Old SF novel with underground Moon civilization, water very precious
Sometime in the 1960s I read a paperback SF novel with one or more Earthmen on the Moon. There was a nonhuman Moon civilization living underground. It may have been a dystopian society and water was ...
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What is the title of the short story using the plot device of a Film archive found on earth's moon by aliens
Short story published in either a magazine or more likely an anthology. Probably published in the 50's or 60's. Earth is dead and aliens land on the moon. While studying the moon and earth, an ...
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How did the base flood in Silent Sea?
When characters die of exposure, they do not produce an infinite amount of water. They only produce until shortly after death (when the cells themselves run out ATP/ADP). How then could the body of ...
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Looking for a kids' sci-fi book about an alien on the Moon, with colour dot style pictures
The book was likely published before the 1990s, and is about a lone alien on the Moon. It features colour dot style pictures, with some text.
Any ideas what the title might be?
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American astronaut abducted from moon, placed in alien zoo, must work with time-traveling Roman soldier
I found this novel in English at my local library in the mid-1990's, but the book itself looked like it was from the 1950's or 60's. If I remember correctly, it had a picture of an astronaut in a ...
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