| Author: | Stephen Livesey Ashworth | ISBN: | 9780953615810 |
| Publisher: | Stephen Livesey Ashworth | Publication: | November 30, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Stephen Livesey Ashworth |
| ISBN: | 9780953615810 |
| Publisher: | Stephen Livesey Ashworth |
| Publication: | November 30, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
What would really have happened if Nazi Germany had tried to add the Moon to its list of conquests during the Second World War?
Freddy Axley is an astronaut pilot for a near-future lunar tourism company. When his latest rich clients want to explore a previously unvisited part of the Moon, Freddy finds himself taking part in the archaeological discovery of the century.
But after twenty years of crippling environmental legislation and economic decline, the political situation on Earth is now poisoned by a resurgence of the neo-Nazi Far Right. Freddy's clients intend to use their discovery as a propaganda weapon in the wave of political extremism sweeping Europe. The truth about what has been found on the Moon has become dangerous, and after witnessing two murders Freddy realises that his own life is in danger.
Complicating the picture are the conspiracy theorists with their fantasies that the Nazis not only survived on the Moon, thanks to the gift of alien technologies, but are about to return with irresistable force and reimpose the domination of the blonde master race on Earth. Freddy has to choose: should he believe this nonsense, and in doing so save his job, or should he speak the truth, that the wartime astronauts could not possibly have survived? Or is there a tiny chance that they might have survived after all, against all the odds?
This novel combines elements of historical fiction and the thriller in a hard SF setting, with touches of romance along the way. It is set on the Moon and on Earth at various times between 1941 and 2033.
"Somewhere out there in the parched lunar wilderness a trail of bootprints led to the inert body of a man in his fifties wearing a name-tag that identified him as a German air ace who had gone missing during World War Two." -- But was the body real, or was it a mere digital hallucination, a set-up in the game of political extremism?
What would really have happened if Nazi Germany had tried to add the Moon to its list of conquests during the Second World War?
Freddy Axley is an astronaut pilot for a near-future lunar tourism company. When his latest rich clients want to explore a previously unvisited part of the Moon, Freddy finds himself taking part in the archaeological discovery of the century.
But after twenty years of crippling environmental legislation and economic decline, the political situation on Earth is now poisoned by a resurgence of the neo-Nazi Far Right. Freddy's clients intend to use their discovery as a propaganda weapon in the wave of political extremism sweeping Europe. The truth about what has been found on the Moon has become dangerous, and after witnessing two murders Freddy realises that his own life is in danger.
Complicating the picture are the conspiracy theorists with their fantasies that the Nazis not only survived on the Moon, thanks to the gift of alien technologies, but are about to return with irresistable force and reimpose the domination of the blonde master race on Earth. Freddy has to choose: should he believe this nonsense, and in doing so save his job, or should he speak the truth, that the wartime astronauts could not possibly have survived? Or is there a tiny chance that they might have survived after all, against all the odds?
This novel combines elements of historical fiction and the thriller in a hard SF setting, with touches of romance along the way. It is set on the Moon and on Earth at various times between 1941 and 2033.
"Somewhere out there in the parched lunar wilderness a trail of bootprints led to the inert body of a man in his fifties wearing a name-tag that identified him as a German air ace who had gone missing during World War Two." -- But was the body real, or was it a mere digital hallucination, a set-up in the game of political extremism?
