John W. Campbell was the man who made modern science fiction what it is today. As editor of Astounding Stories (later Analog), Campbell brought into the field such all-time greats as Asimov, Heinlein, Sturgeon and many others, while his own writing blazed new trails in science fiction reading pleasure. The Moon is Hell is this great writer-editor's vision of the first men on the moon - written 18 years before Neil Armstrong made history. This is the story of the American space programme - not as it happened, but as it might have been.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Survival On A Dead World,
By Dave_42 "Dave_42" (Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Moon Is Hell! (Mass Market Paperback)
This book actually contains two stories. The first is the short novel "The Moon Is Hell!", which was first published in 1951 (some references indicate 1950, but I have not found any evidence to support the earlier date). The second is a novella titled "The Elder Gods", which was first published in "Unknown" in October of 1939 using the alias Don A. Stuart and co-authored by Arthur J. Burks. This book was ranked 24th on the Analog/Astounding All-Time Poll.
The novel bears a certain resemblance with the novella "Who Goes There?". Both stories are about a group of scientists that are isolated from civilization, who have to fight for their lives. In "Who Goes There?" it was a fight against an alien discovered in the ice of Antarctica. In "The Moon Is Hell!" it is a fight for the basics of life (air, water, food, shelter) by a group that is stranded on the Moon after the relief ship that was to bring them home crashes. The story is written from the viewpoint of one of the members of the expedition in the form of his diary during this period. It is an interesting story, and Campbell is very inventive in the solutions that they develop to solve their problems. The second story is a fantasy story, which is a genre that I was not aware that John W. Campbell Jr. had ever used. In the story, the elder gods bring to the Azun islands a hero to try to destroy the Invisible Ones, who have taken control of their land. It took me a while to get into this story, but overall it was a fairly solid effort. It isn't clear why this story was paired with "The Moon Is Hell!", other than they needed to make this book a reasonable length.
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Limited objective space exploration,
By R. Bagula "Roger L. Bagula" (Lakeside, Ca United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Moon Is Hell! (Mass Market Paperback)
A moon colony was an idea that a lot of sci fi writers had in the 50's and 60's. The US government had just the idea of beating the Russians there.
40 years after the moon landings we are still not a lot closer to people living on the moon. In the 50's vitamin research was a big thing: even today making proteins by an electrolytic procedure is not really known, but may be possibles? The point is that Campbell's novel is like a Jules Verne one: things that are possible if we have some resolve and are willing to work hard. Campbell spent most of 40 years making sci fi and important part of literature.
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