Let's never go to the moon again (Moonseed - Stephen Baxter)

Member Name: phypher

Product:	Moonseed - Stephen Baxter
Date:	28/04/01 (25 review reads)
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Advantages: Set in Edinburgh for large part

Disadvantages: None really

Stephen Baxter again comes up with a bizzare premise for a story, and turns it into something plausible, and believable.

The basic premise is that when the moon and earth were formed (moon preiously being part of earth), something was left inside the moon. When man goes to the moon, and brings back rocks, they bring back some of this stuff.

Eventually, of course the moon rock is exposed to Earth, and some of the "Moonseed" touches Earth Rock.

The MoonSeed has a reason for it's existence, which i won't spoil, but needless to say it's off the wall, as Stephen Baxter is wont to be, although still in the realms of plausibility).

Unfortunately, this then leads to the requirement for the "biggest evacuation since Noah's Ark" (taken from binder blurb).

The story involves astronauts, geologists, policemen, and weirdo religious cults,a ll of whom conspire to give a gripping story that is truly believable, while still being slightly towards the hard-core sci-fi side of things.

An exciting aside (for me anyway) is that large parts of it are set in Edinburgh, and he uses the correct street names, and area names of the city, so if you work or live in Edinburgh, you can get a real feel for where the events are happening. Let's just say you will never look at Arthur's Seat again.

Even more exciting, my place of employment is one of the places destroyed (financial institution on George Street), which I'm sorry to say gives this an extra Star, so gets a five star rating instead of a four.

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