num_pages: 176
description: Gold Medal SF, L1474Before 1969, every science fiction writer wrote his or her own version of the first Moon landing. I doubt if any carry the horror of Budrys' unsettling story.During all recorded history, the Moon has hovered above our heads, a timeless symbol for lovers' ecstasy. Goddesses and Gibson Girls have tripped the light fantastic of her beams while sonneteers and scientists have scanned her changing phases.Now man had actually reached the Moon, and on it the explorers found a structure, a formation so terrible and incomprehensible that it couldn't even be described in human terms. It was a thing that devoured men; that killed them again and again in torturous, unfathomable ways.Earthbound are the only two men who could probe the thing: Al Barker, a homicidal maniac, whose loving mistress was death, and Dr. Edward Hawks, a scientific murderer, whose greatest mission was rebirth. This is second printing, identical to the First in every aspect except for the book number and original cover price.
title: Rogue Moon
titlecomplete: Rogue Moon
characters: Sam Latourette, Edward Hawks, Doctor of Science, Vincent "Connie" Connington, Elizabeth Cummings, Al Barker
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Death, Collections, Horror, Literature, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, 20th Century
ratings_count: 2950
awards: awardedAt: -283968000000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Fawcett