NASA Trilogy · Book 3

Moonseed

by Stephen Baxter

Published
1 January 1998
Pages
539
ISBN-13
9780061569142
Type
novel

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Cover of Moonseed

About this book

The shortest of the trilogy at 539 pages, Moonseed (1998) is a present-day-set disaster novel in which a mysterious lunar substance triggers catastrophe on Earth, unconnected in plot to the other two books.

Its place in NASA Trilogy

Moonseed is book 3 in the NASA Trilogy series. It follows Titan. See the full NASA Trilogy reading order.

Three loosely linked, alternate-history near-future novels built on Stephen Baxter's engineering-obsessed love of real spaceflight hardware and NASA history. Voyage (1996) imagines an America that never cancelled Apollo-era ambition, sending astronauts to Mars in the 1980s in a grueling, meticulously researched alternate 20th century built from real declassified NASA proposals and hardware that was never flown. Titan (1997) turns darker: as the real Shuttle program winds down and political will for spaceflight…

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