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STORMS – the second book

Storms Book Cover

MOON was originally planned to be a standalone short story. As the writing progressed it felt wrong to just end it. It was a complete story and would work as such. I hate cliff-hangers that steamroll you into buying the next book, but there was more to explore in MOON.

I can’t spoil it, but the ending raised big questions of ‘what next?’. And so I developed it into the next part STORMS. The story jumps a few years and takes place on the earth, in and around Los Angeles, but has connections back to MOON. I don’t specify an exact year but it’s the early to mid 1980’s and I had to do frequent trips to Google to check computers and equipment I have in the book were available at the time. It’s easy to forget that the cell phone in our pockets had its origins in briefcase sized radio telephones.

It’s set in the scientific world of astronomy (you don’t need a degree to follow the book though). Are they all highbrow academics? No. They have to try and climb up the greasy pole of promotion like any other occupation. Especially so if you are a woman like Dr Carla Richards.

It was great fun to write and I hope you enjoy it too. You can read more on the books page.

MOON – the first book

Moon Cover

It all started from a ‘what if?’ question. What if an Apollo lunar mission got stranded? That then led onto working out why they were stranded. What had happened? What would they do?

From that came the kernel of the idea that grew into the MOON book. I’ll be the first to admit it’s not 100% accurate to every design feature on a Lunar Module but it’s close enough I hope not to spoil the enjoyment. After all it is fiction 🙂

I remember watching to first moon landings live on a black and white television in a primary school classroom. It had fold out shields around the screen to try and keep out some of the sunlight – couldn’t have been very bright screens back then. I was probably a bit too young to really get the significance but I do remember building a Saturn V rocket from a cardboard cut-out type of kit. I was very proud of it when I’d finished.

You can read more about the book and the others in the series on the books page.

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