Moonfall

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It s the 21st century, and all is right with the world Or so it seems.Vice President Charlie Haskell, who will travel anywhere for a photo op, is about to cut the ribbon for the just completed American Moonbase The first Mars voyage is about to leave high orbit, with a woman at the helm Below, the world is marveling at a rare solar eclipse.But all that is right is about to go disastrously wrong when an amateur astronomer discovers a new comet Named for its discover, Tomikois a sun grazer, an interstellar wanderer with a hundred times the mass and ten times the speed of other comets And it is headed straight for our moon.In less than five days, if scientists predictions are right, Tomiko will crash into the moon, shattering it into a cloud of superheated gas, dust, and huge chunks of rock that will rain down on the earth, causing chaos and killer storms, possibly tidal waves inundating entire citiesor worse a single apocalyptic worldwide extinction event In the meantime, the population of Moonbase must be evacuated by a hastily assembled fleet of shuttle rockets There isn t room, or time enough, for everyone And the vice president, who rashly promised to be last off I will lock the door and turn off the lights , is trying to figure out how to get away without eating his words.In Moonfall,McDevitt has created a disaster thriller of truly epic proportions, featuring a cast of unforgettable characters the reluctant Russian rocket jockey entrusted with the lives of squabbling refugees the woman chosen to be first on the moon the scientist who must deflect the possum POSSible IMpactors knocked from orbit or witness the end science itself And at the center of it all is Charlie Haskell, the career politician who discovers his own unexpected reserves of only himself and his country, but for all humankind.Moonfall,is a spellbinding tale of heroism and hope, cowardice and passion played against the awesome spectacle of human history s darkest night. Free Download Kindle ePUB Moonfall By Jack McDevitt – kino-fada.fr I really wanted to like this book It was recommended to me by a friend who met the author, so I feel almost disloyal not liking this book The book isn t bad It s just not good.I looked up the dates, because I couldn t shake the feeling that I was reading something that was supposed to be a movie and a movie I d seen several times Shoemaker Levy smacked into Jupiter in 1994 Everyone got excited about the What if factor The question constantly being asked by the news reporters was What I really wanted to like this book It was recommended to me by a friend who met the author, so I feel almost disloyal not liking this book The book isn t bad It s just not good.I looked up the dates, because I couldn t shake the feeling that I was reading something that was supposed to be a movie and a movie I d seen several times Shoemaker Levy smacked into Jupiter in 1994 Everyone got excited about the What if factor The question constantly being asked by the news reporters was What would happen if something that size hit Earth Suddenly cheap documentaries were getting cranked out with doomsday scenarios of comets and asteroids threatening the world I remember a cheesy TV movie called Asteroid Feb 1997 , followed a year or two later by Deep Impact May 199...Imagine if Quinn Martin were still alive and making disaster films today that s what you d get if someone were to make a movie of this book.I used to just love disaster films Such a guilty pleasure This book feeds that love A comet hits the moon, th...Ah, hard science fiction, how I ve missed you Your paper cutout characters, your massive scope, your meticulously researched and detailed science It s been far too long since I ve read a good hard SF b...McDevitt is a niche author He writes what is sometimes erroneously called hard sci fi what it is really is the imagination of certain plausible events and asking what would happen next Moonfall is my favorite of his books and among my favorites of all books A com...I grew up in the 1950s and 60s and was a big fan of science fiction and particularly space operas I loved movies like The Forbidden Planet that tried to speculated what it would be like to be in a spaceship in Outer Space and to visit other planets, loved TV shows like Star Trek and Lost in Space I loved books by Isaac Asimov the Foundation trilogy and Frank Herbert the Dune series Then science fiction became almost all fantasy magic, make believe worlds without any scientific I grew up in the 1950s and 60s and was a big fan of science fiction and particularly space operas I loved movies like The Forbidden Planet that tried to speculated what it would be like to be in a spaceship in Outer Space and to visit other planets, loved TV shows like Star Trek and Lost in Space I loved books by Isaac Asimov the Foundation trilogy and Frank Herbert the Dun...This is a really good book that exceeded my expectations Jack McDevitt has always been a talented author that does real well with academic or mystery science fiction but I ve never been a fan of the Earth Disaster aspects of his books He and I aren t necessarily on the same page with things like global warming and global government But, I can enjoy his work without agreeing with him because his beliefs are background to the story, not the point.I digressThis book was a page turner, a sto This is a really good book that exceeded my expectations Jack McDevitt has always been a talented author that does real well with academic or mystery science fiction but I ve never been a fan of the Earth Disaster aspects of his books He and I aren t necessarily on the same page w...This book was, in a word, chaotic And in a second word, preachy It s actually very difficult to determine which of those two descriptors wasupsetting, as I went through the book Around three quarters of the way through, I had hadthan enough, and I only finished reading to give the book a fair shake.In all honesty, I rather wish I hadn t.Let s start with how it was chaotic This issue should be relevant to any reader, regardless of your philosophical bent.The chaos begins with simp This book was, in a word, chaotic And in a second word, preachy It s actually very difficult to determine which of those two descriptors wasupsetting, as I went through the book Around three quarters of the way through, I had hadthan enough, and I only finished reading to give the book a fair shake.In all honesty, I rather wish I hadn t.Let s start with how it was chaotic This issue should be relevant to any reader, regardless of your philosophical bent.The chaos begins with simple organization It seems Mr McDevitt wanted to have titled sections, but he also wanted smaller breaks within the story His choice on how to resolve this Ten titled chapters with anywhere between 3 and 13 smaller, enumerated breaks in each Except that those enumerations restarted with each chapter So either you had to read eighty pages at a sitting or remember both chapter number and sectio...The story is excellent, but several details spoiled the entire book for me I didn t mind the tremendous number of around fifty character, but for even the smallest bit players, McDevitt provided in the text, a minimum of a paragraph, and usually three or four along with a page or two of backstory Some got killed within the next few pages After several of these, I skimmed every backstory In addition, although I could see where McDevitt tried to make all the names different, after the first The story is excellent, but several details spoiled the entire book for me I didn t mind the tremendous number of around fifty character, but for even the smallest bit players, McDevitt provided in the text, a minimum of a paragraph, and usually three or fo...I just finished Moonfall and it was a terrific science fiction thriller about a pre apocalyptic event in which a comet is hurdling through space and is expected to hit the Moon In this future, the US has established a Moonbase which will be destroyed by the comet so the research facility needs to be evacuated However, the question becomes what happens when the Moon is hit How bad will the damage be And what impact will this have for Earth This book has a complex group of characters which I I just finished Moonfall and it was a terrific sc...I went into this book with high expectations I really liked McDevitt s Academy novels, but something about this just didn t click for me Over 100 pages in, I hadn t found a character I could like, and the plot was completely unsurprising I felt like I knew where the book was going, and didn t see much point in continuing Moonfall doesn t have the elements of the Academy novels that grabbed me, and it felt like ...

Moonfall
  • English
  • 01 July 2018
  • Paperback
  • 560 pages
  • 0061051128
  • Jack McDevitt
  • Moonfall