Book description
On the airless surface of the Moon the 'cold war' continues, with the
bases of the major world powers watching each other and waiting . . .
The dedicated personnel of Britain's Moon Base seemed well-adjusted to
their peculiar existence despite a series of mysterious happenings. What
bothers them most is the visit of a Royal Commission sent by an
economically-worried British Government to investigate expenditure.
Travelling with the Commission, but under separate and secret orders, is
Felix Larsen, who's investigations are of quite a different nature.
Larsen, alive to the possibilities of espionage, soon finds himself
faced with the inexplicable. Why should one man fall a thousand feet and
escape with minor bruises while another dies after falling a mere
eighteen inches? Why does a desperate man, bent on suicide and with all
the means at hand, find it absolutely impossible to kill himself? What
are the strange messages emanating from the Base - and from whence do
they come? And what is the fantastic thing that has been conceived in
the research department? Edwin Charles Tubb was born in London in
1919, and was a prolific author of SF, fantasy and western novels, under
his own name and a number of pseudonyms. He wrote hundreds of short
stories and novellas for the SF magazines of the 50's, including the
long-running Galaxy Science Fiction, and was a founding member of the
British Science Fiction Association. He died in 2010.
