Adrift on the Sea of Rains: Volume 1 (Apollo Quartet) - Softcover

Sales, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0957188390 ISBN 13: 9780957188396

Publisher: Whippleshield Books, 2014

Synopsis

WINNER OF THE 2013 BSFA AWARD When nuclear war breaks out and the nations of the Earth are destroyed, a group of US astronauts are marooned on the lunar surface. Using the "torsion field generator", a WWII Nazi Wunderwaffe previously known as the Bell, they hope to find an alternate Earth that did not suffer nuclear armageddon. But once they do discover one, how will they return home? They have a single Lunar Module, which can carry only four astronauts into lunar orbit...

About this title

Review

"one of the most outstanding self-published books of the year" --The Guardian

"scrupulously researched, written with an expert blend of technical precision, descriptive vividness and emotional penetration" --Adam Roberts

"this is probably the best piece of science fiction I've read so far this year" --Lavie Tidhar

"scrupulously researched, written with an expert blend of technical precision, descriptive vividness and emotional penetration" --Adam Roberts

"this is probably the best piece of science fiction I've read so far this year" --Lavie Tidhar

About the Author

Ian Sales has been published in Postscripts, Jupiter, Alt Hist and the anthologies Catastrophia (PS Publishing), Vivisepulture (Anarchy Books), The Monster Book for Girls (theExagerratedpress) and Where Are We going? (Eibonvale Press). He edited the anthology Rocket Science from Mutation Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Whippleshield Books
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0957188390
• ISBN 13: 9780957188396
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 104