by Arthur C. Clarke
“He was a boy again, playing in the hot sand of a forgotten summer. He had found a tiny pit, perfectly smooth and symmetrical, and there was something lurking in its depths—something completely buried except for its waiting jaws. The boy had watched, wondering, already conscious of the fact that thi...
This is one of those books with no enemy or protagonist unless you consider the harsh elements of the moon the enemy.The Selene is a special made "boat" that carries tourist over the Sea of Thirst which is a sea of meters thick dust. In the moons environment this dust has most of the characteristics...
A bunch of ordinary people stuck in a tin can below the surface of the moon, battling one catastrophe after another, what is not to love? This is one of my favourite books and I can read it time and again, as indeed I have. So it seems a little dated? That is ok, after all it was written 53 years ag...
The tourist moon cruiser Selene goes for a trip on the surface of Moon. Suddenly it loses control and drowns into the Sea of Thirst as the result of moonquake. The ship became trapped in the sea of entire dust. There is no water on Moon but only thick dust which formed that sea.All the passengers a...
I'm probably unique in this, but to be honest this is my favorite novel by Clarke, despite it being very atypical for him. Arthur C. Clarke was my mother's favorite author. She loved the transcendental in him, the religious flavor in his futuristic science fiction. She loved to tell the story of how...
Some bits were quite exciting, but the sexism bothered me a lot. So did the absence of personal computers, the internet and mobile phones, though I guess it isn't fair to expect that from a book written in the early 1960's.
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