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Blurb: “As in The Caine Mutiny, which won him the Pulitzer Prize, Herman Wouk again writes of the Navy --but in a startling new way.
Here is the eerily realistic account of a naval lieutenant's expedition to the moon -- and his strange encounter with its inhabitants.
But more than a "log" of life on the moon, this fantastic tale of space travel reads today like a dramatic prophecy of things about to happen -- not only out in space, but also here on earth!”
Small intro “This tale of a moon voyage, my one effort at science fiction, was written in 1949, just before the start of the sea narrative that became The Caine Mutiny. I intended it as a mirror satire of nuclear confrontation. At the time, the Soviet Union had not yet exploded an atomic weapon, nor were scientists certain that a hydrogen bomb (then called a "hell bomb"') would work. In retrospect, the tale has proven too prophetic for comfort.”