Sandcastles on the Moon
Paperplanes / 2013
Auteur·rice : M.F.W. Curran
First lines:
“Mr Goode?”
Hemmingway Goode looked down at the man sitting at the desk in front of him.
“You are Hemmingway Goode?” The man from Nicholls & Blundell continued.
Hemmingway nodded. “How did you know?”
“You have that ‘just woke up from cryo-sleep’ look,” the man said and and rose from behind his shiny desk. Hemmingway shook the man’s hand. It was a firm grip.
“Sit down,” the man said. “My name is Mr Anders. You spoke to my secretary?”
Hemmingway frowned and sat as instructed. “I did?”
“On Earth, “ Mr Anders said.
“That was … two years ago,” Hemmingway said.
Contents:
The moon of Prollyx is lifeless, but rich in mineral deposits. Hemmingway Goode and his family join a group of pioneers, hoping to make there fortune there.
But the moon is no place for humans. The prospectors have made a terrible mistake. The question now is how many will survive.
From the imagination of science-fiction author Matt Curran comes a story rich in tension, poetry and horror...
Niveau lycée: seconde - première
2020, 2022
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