9781597806534

The Eagle Has Landed

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In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, the endlessly-mysterious moon is explored in this reprint short science fiction anthology from award-winning editor and anthologist Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld, The Best Science Fiction of the Year).





On July 20, 1969, mankind made what had only years earlier seemed like an impossible leap forward: when Apollo 11 became the first manned mission to land on the moon, and Neil Armstrong the first person to step foot on the lunar surface.





While there have only been a handful of new missions since, the fascination with our planet's satellite continues, and generations of writers and artists have imagined the endless possibilities of lunar life. From adventures in the vast gulf of space between the earth and the moon, to journeys across the light face to the dark side, to the establishment of permanent residences on its surface, science fiction has for decades given readers bold and forward-thinking ideas about our nearest interstellar neighbor and what it might mean to humankind, both now and in our future.





The Eagle Has Landed collects the best stories written in the fifty years since mankind first stepped foot on the lunar surface, serving as a shining reminder that the moon is and always has been our most visible and constant example of all the infinite possibility of the wider universe.





Table of Contents





Introduction





Bagatelle by John Varley



The Eve of the Last Apollo by Carter Scholz



The Lunatics by Kim Stanley Robinson



Griffin's Egg by Michael Swanwick



A Walk in the Sun by Geoffrey A. Landis



Waging Good by Robert Reed



How We Lost the Moon by Paul McAuley



People Came From Earth by Stephen Baxter



Ashes and Tombstones by Brian Stableford



Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's by Adam Troy Castro



Stories for Men by John Kessel



The Clear Blue Seas of Luna by Gregory Benford



You Will Go to the Moon by William Preston



SeniorSource by Kristine Kathryn Rusch



The Economy of Vacuum by Sarah Thomas



The Cassandra Project by Jack McDevitt



Fly Me to the Moon by Marianne J. Dyson



Tyche and the Ants by Hannu Rajaniemi



The Moon Belongs to Everyone by Michael Alexander and K.C. Ball



The Fifth Dragon by Ian McDonald



Let Baser Things Devise by Berrien C. Henderson



The Moon is Not a Battlefield by Indrapramit Das



Every Hour of Light and Dark by Nancy Kress



In Event of Moon Disaster by Rich Larson





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ISBN-13

9781597806534

ISBN-10

1597806536

Format

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Language

English

Pages

600 pages

Publisher

Published On

2019-07-18



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