Books like Moonfall
30 science fiction books to read after Moonfall, by Mcdevitt, Jack, the closest match first.
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1. The Gods Themselves (1973)
by Asimov, Isaac
- On the same lists
In the 2070s, a scientist realises that a sample of tungsten has turned into plutonium that cannot exist in our universe. His discovery leads to the Electron Pump, which gives...
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2. Ice
by Shane Johnson
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Like Stephen Baxter, Johnson imagines that the Apollo programme continued. In this case, Apollo 19 arrives at a point on the Moon where ice has been detected, but when it...
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3. The First Men In The Moon
by Wells, H. G.
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First Men in the Moon was the last of the great run of genre-defining scientific romances that Wells wrote in the first years of his career, it is also the...
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4. Luna: New Moon
by Ian Mcdonald
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Ian McDonald's diptych, Luna: New Moon and its forthcoming sequel, Luna: Wolf Moon, is the first full-blooded description of a lunar colony that science fiction has seen for decades. It's...
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5. A Fall Of Moondust
by Clarke, Arthur C.
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This is one of those short, intense novels that encapsulates all the dangers of life on the space frontier in one gripping episode. In this case, a cruise ship on...
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6. From The Earth To The Moon & Around The Moon
by Verne, Jules
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Talking of scientific knowledge, one of the fascinating things about this early account of a journey to the Moon is that Verne dispatches his space voyagers from a base not...
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7. Steel Beach
by John Varley
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Alien invaders have obliterated human life on Earth, and the survivors have scattered through the rest of the Solar System. The most heavily populated colony is Luna, the Steel Beach...
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8. The Ceres Solution
by Bob Shaw
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There has been a theory put about that the Moon's gravitational influence played a part in the development of intelligence on Earth; here, Bob Shaw turns that idea on its...
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9. Moon Is Hell, The & Green World, The
by John W. Campbell Jr.
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Before he became the most influential editor in the history of science fiction, Campbell was an author of remarkable, scientifically savvy stories that clearly presaged the golden age he helped...
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10. The Moon Maid
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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Omnibus fixup of: 1. "Moon Maid" (1923) 2. "The Moon Men" (1925) 3. "The Red Hawk" (1925) Originally all serialized in *Argosy All-Story Weekly*
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11. Trouble With Tycho
by Clifford D. Simak
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Like Rogue Moon, which came out at around the same time, and presaging Arthur C. Clarke's 2001, A Space Odyssey in odd ways, this is a novel about the Moon...
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12. Griffin's Egg
by Swanwick, Michael
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If many of the stories we've included on this list treat the Moon as a threat, there are equally those, like The Moon is a Harsh Mistress or Steel Beach,...
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13. L'autre Monde
by Cyrano De Bergerac
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We said earlier that Godwin's The Man in the Moone was one of the most influential works in the history of science fiction, and this is one of the earliest...
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14. Lunar Justice
by Charles L. Harness
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If you want to see how much sf from the last quarter of the 20th century ignored the technical realities of the Moon, look no further than this sometimes absurd...
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15. Double Planet/reunion
by John Gribbin
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John Gribbin and Marcus Chown are two highly respected science writers who occasionally turn their talents, and their expertise, to science fiction. So you know that what you are going...
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16. The Moonbase Saga
by Ben Bova
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For the last 30 years, Ben Bova has been composing an intricately interconnected sequence of novels that explore the human colonisation of the entire solar system. Inevitably, the Moon plays...
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17. Farside Cannon
by Roger Macbride Allen
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This is yet another novel with the Moon as threat, and another which plays with the idea of the dark side of the Moon. In this instance a superweapon is...
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18. A Talent For War
by Mcdevitt, Jack
- Same author
Jack McDevitt’s wonderful science fiction mystery rides the line that defines Military Science Fiction very tight. The story, about Alex Benedict’s search for the nature of his uncle’s secret, takes...
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19. The Man In The Moone
by Francis Godwin
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Godwin was Bishop of Hereford, and this extraordinary story was discovered among his papers after his death. Read today it is hard to realise what an amazing work it was,...
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20. The Consolidator Or, Memoirs Of Sundry Transactions From The World In The Moon
by Daniel Defoe
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Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe and Journal of the Plague Year among many others, is not generally recognised for his science fiction, but in fact he wrote one of the...
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21. Somnium
by Johannes Kepler
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Following the Copernican Revolution, Kepler was probably the most important astronomer in the story of our understanding of the Solar System. He worked with Tycho Brahe and became court astronomer...
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22. Rogue Moon
by Algis Budrys
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A novel that makes the reader confront death.
A massive alien structure is discovered on the moon. In order to explore it, volunteers are scanned in a matter transmitter on Earth and their doppelgangers are projected onto the...
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23. Seeker (2007)
by Mcdevitt, Jack
- Same author
Antiquities dealer Alex Benedict and his pilot Chase Kolpath come across a cup with ancient markings that appears to have come from the Seeker, a colony ship that left Earth...
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24. The Hercules Text
by Mcdevitt, Jack
- Same author
The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been underway for over five decades now. (For real, that is!) Somewhere out there, we thinkhope? fear?there may be life forms, alien but...
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25. Polaris
by Mcdevitt, Jack
- Same author
Polaris is a Jack McDevitt novel about the antiques dealer Alex Benedict and his pilot Chase Kolpath, who investigate the disappearance of the crew of a ship sixty years earlier.
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26. The Devil's Eye
by Mcdevitt, Jack
- Same author
Nebula Award winner Jack McDevitt is "the logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke" (Stephen King).Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict receives a cryptic message asking for help from...
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27. Echo
by Mcdevitt, Jack
- Same author
After 8000 years of star travel, humanity has found only one alien species. Alex Benedict may be on the path to finding another one, but an assassin has other ideas.
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28. Firebird
by Mcdevitt, Jack
- Same author
Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath discover that a missing renowned physicist had several interstellar yachts flown far outside the planetary system where they vanished. Following the physicist's trail into the...
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29. Coming Home
by Mcdevitt, Jack
- Same author
An antiquities dealer travels to Earth to search for an artifact of the early space age and to search for an interstellar transport that vanished 11 years prior.
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30. To The Moon
by Heinlein, Robert A.
- On the same lists
An award winning novel about a colony that rebels against the Lunar Authority that controls it.
Science fiction-roman.
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