Thursday, 23 April 2026

On The Moon

A large part of Robert Heinlein's Future History is set on the Moon:

"Requiem"
"The Long Watch"
"Gentlemen, Be Seated"
"The Black Pits of Luna"
"It's Great To Be Back"
"The Menace from Earth"
"Searchlight"
"Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon"

We remember these stories when we read Poul Anderson's Harvest The Fire, CHAPTER 2, set on the Moon. A Lunarian woman lopes on the surface, her outspread solar collectors and cooling surfaces resembling dragonfly wings, her silver, mostly bionic, spacesuit fitting her like a second skin. A Lunarian man leads his vacuum-adapted moonwolf on a leash. Jess Nicol remembers the phrase, "Magnificent desolation..." (p. 44)

Anderson's vision continues and completes Heinlein's.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Kaor, Paul!

"The Black Pits of Luna" reminded me of Anderson's Black Hole of Jihannath.

Ad astra! Sean