Moonseed. Stephen Baxter

      STEPHEN BAXTER

      MOONSEED

      THE NASA TRILOGY

       COPYRIGHT

      HarperVoyager an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 1998

      Copyright © Stephen Baxter 1998

      Cover photo © NASA

       Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2015

      Stephen Baxter asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008134532

       Ebook Edition © June 2012 ISBN 9780007392353 Version: 2015-10-07

       DEDICATION

      For Sandra, with all my love

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Dramatis Personae

I Big Whack

II Ard Tor

       III Earth

       IV Moon

       V Bottleneck

       VI Nadezhda

       Afterword

       Keep Reading

       About the Author

       Praise for Stephen Baxter

       Also by the Author

       About the Publisher

       DRAMATIS PERSONAE

      Henry Meacher, geologist, NASA

      Geena Bourne, Space Station astronaut

      Jane Dundas, shopkeeper

      Arkady Berezovoy, Space Station astronaut

      GREAT BRITAIN

      

      EDINBURGH:

      Jack Dundas, son of Jane

      Mike Dundas, technician

      Ted Dundas, retired police officer

      Ruth Clark, neighbour of Ted Dundas

      Hamish Macrae, aka Bran, cult leader

      Billy Macrae, brother of Hamish

      Alan Macrae, father of Hamish

      Dan McDiarmid, geologist, Edinburgh University

      Marge Case, geologist, Edinburgh University

      Constable Morag Decker, police officer

      Blue Ishiguro, geologist, USGS

      William MacEwen, police superintendent

      Paula Romano, Chief Constable

      Archie Ferguson, Emergency Planning Officer

      Janice Docherty, hospital patient

      Siobhan Reader, Musselburgh Rest Centre manager

      OTHER:

      Bob Farnes, Prime Minister

      Dave Holland, Environment Secretary

      Indira Bhide, Home Secretary

      Debbie Sturrock, firefighter, Dunbar

      William Calder, Jackie Brown, rig workers

      Jenny Calder, wife to William

      UNITED STATES

      

      NASA:

      Jays Malone, Apollo astronaut

      Tom Barber, Apollo astronaut

      Tracy Malone, daughter to Jays

      Harry Maddicott, JSC director

      Sixt Guth, Space Station astronaut

      Bonnie Jones, Space Station astronaut

      Frank Turtle, engineer, JSC Solar System Exploration Division

      OTHER:

      Monica Beus, physicist

      Alfred Synge, astronomer

      Scott Coplon, geologist, US Geological Survey

      Joely Stern, e-zine journalist

      Cecilia