HOT MOON
Apollo
Rising Book One
A WAR IN SPACE
AS TOLD BY CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR, ALAN SMALE
Set for
release this July and published by CAEZIK SF & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc
Manor Books!
The novel will be available in eBook and print form
across all platforms!
"A
nail-biting thriller."−Publishers Weekly
From the Sidewise Award-winning author of the acclaimed Clash of Eagles trilogy comes an
alternate 1979 where the US and the Soviets have permanent Moon bases, orbiting
space stations, and crewed spy satellites supported by frequent rocket
launches.
Apollo 32, commanded by career astronaut Vivian Carter, docks at NASA's Columbia space station en route to its
main mission: exploring the volcanic Marius Hills region of the Moon. Vivian is
caught in the crossfire as four Soviet Soyuz craft appear without warning to
assault the orbiting station. In an unplanned and desperate move, Vivian
spacewalks through hard vacuum back to her Lunar Module and crew and escapes
right before thestation falls into Soviet hands.
Their original
mission scrubbed, Vivian and her crew are redirected to land at Hadley Base, a
NASA scientific outpost with a crew of eighteen. But soon Hadley, too, will
come under Soviet attack, forcing its unarmed astronauts to daring acts of
ingenuity and improvisation.
With multiple viewpoints, shifting from American to Soviet perspective, from
occupied space station to American Moon base under
siege, to a covert and blistering US Air Force military response, Hot Moon tells the gripping story of a
war in space that very nearly might have been.
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PRAISE FOR HOT MOON:
"I loved it. Great 'hard' science fiction with convincing
space battles." −Larry
Niven, Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of Ringworld
“Alan Smale is one of the brightest stars in the hard-SF
firmament, and Hot Moon is his best novel yet. Enjoy!” −Robert J. Sawyer, Nebular and Hugo Award-winning author
of The Oppenheimer Alternative
"Will
delight and enthrall." −Library Journal
"A provocative science
fiction novel" −Foreword Reviews
ABOUT
ALAN:
Alan Smale
writes alternate and twisted history, and hard SF. His novella of a Roman
invasion of ancient America, "A Clash of Eagles", won the Sidewise
Award. Alan has also sold over forty short stories to Asimov's, Abyss &
Apex, Writers of the Future, and other magazines and anthologies.
Alan grew up in Yorkshire, England, and earned
degrees in Physics and Astrophysics from Oxford University. By day he performs
astronomical research into black holes and neutron stars at NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center, with over a hundred published academic papers; by night he
sings bass with high-energy vocal band The Chromatics, and is co-creator of
their educational AstroCappella project, spreading astronomy through a cappella
in schools nationwide.
Find him online at https://www.alansmale.com,
Facebook/AlanSmale, and Twitter/@AlanSmale.
To
request additional review copies or an interview with Alan Smale, please
contact Mickey Mikkelson at Creative Edge Publicity by email: mickey.creativeedge@gmail.com
or by phone at 403.464.6925.
We look forward to the coverage.
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