The Eagle Has Landed: 50

Years of Lunar Science

Fiction
 By

Night Shade
When Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked
on the moon, itt was a giant leap for mankind and an inspiration to
science fiction writers everywhere!

The lone survivor of a lunar crash, waiting for rescue in a solar

powered suit, must keep walking for thirty days to remain in the
sunlight keeping her alive . . . life as an ice miner turns ugly as the
workers’ resentment turns from sabotage to murder . . . an astronaut
investigating a strange crash landing encounters an increasing
number of doppelgangers of herself . . . a nuclear bomb with a
human personality announces to a moon colony that it will soon
explode . . . hundreds of years in the future, art forgers working on
the lunar surface travel back in time to swap out priceless art,
rescuing it from what will become a destroyed Earth . . .

On July 20, 1969, mankind made what had only years earlier
seemed like an impossible leap forward: Apollo 11 became the first
manned mission to land on the moon, and Neil Armstrong the first
person to step foot on the lunar surface. While there have only been
a handful of new missions since, the fascination with our planet’s
satellite continues, and generations of writers and artists have
imagined the endless possibilities of lunar life.

The Eagle Has Landed collects the best stories written in the fifty
years since mankind first stepped foot on the lunar surface, serving
as a shining reminder that the moon is a visible and constant
example of all the infinite possibility of the wider universe.

Bagatelle by John Varley

The Eve of the Last Apollo by Carter Scholz
The Lunatics by Kim Stanley Robinson
 Griffin’s Egg by Michael Swanwick
A Walk in the Sun by Geoffrey A. Landis
Waging Good by Robert Reed
How We Lost the Moon by Paul McAuley
People Came From Earth by Stephen Baxter
Ashes and Tombstones by Brian Stableford
Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl’s by Adam Troy Castro
Stories for Men by John Kessel
The Clear Blue Seas of Luna by Gregory Benford
You Will Go to the Moon by William Preston
SeniorSource by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The Economy of Vacuum by Sarah Thomas
The Cassandra Project by Jack McDevitt
Fly Me to the Moon by Marianne J. Dyson
Tyche and the Ants by Hannu Rajaniemi
The Moon Belongs to Everyone by Michael Alexander and
K.C. Ball
The Fifth Dragon by Ian McDonald
Let Baser Things Devise by Berrien C. Henderson
The Moon is Not a Battlefield by Indrapramit Das
Every Hour of Light and Dark by Nancy Kress
In Event of Moon Disaster by Rich Larson

Night Shade

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