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	A Fall of Moondust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Fall of Moondust is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1961.
		It's the biggest challenge to date for Captain Pat Harris, and for Chief Engineer (Earthside) Lawrence, who must plan and successfully organise a rescue expedition.
		The Lion of Comarre and Against the Fall of Night
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Fall_of_Moondust (264 words)

	Against the Fall of Night - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Against the Fall of Night is an early (1953) work by Arthur C. Clarke.
		It was later expanded and revised as The City and the Stars.
		The original also appeared in a more recent edition along with another unconnected early work: The Lion of Comarre and Against the Fall of Night.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Against_the_Fall_of_Night (114 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: A Fall of Moondust (S.F.Masterworks S.): Books: Arthur C. Clarke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A brilliantly imagined story of human ingenuity and survival, A FALL OF MOONDUST is a tour-de-force of psychological suspense and sustained dramatic tension by the field's foremost author.
		Clarke wrote A Fall of Moondust between August and November 1960, and it wasn't until the mid-1960s, when the Luniks and the Surveyors landed on the Moon, that it was proved there were no dust seas there.
		Clarke had already used the idea of "moondust" in Earthlight (1955), but the original concept was first developed by James Blish, in one of his science fiction stories (as Clarke relates it in the preface to the 1987 edition of A Fall of Moondust).
	www.amazon.co.uk /Fall-Moondust-S-F-Masterworks-S/dp/0575073179 (1942 words)

	Universe Today - Why is Moondust So Clingy?
		NASA is studying individual grains of moondust returned by Apollo astronauts to how much charge they can build up, and the results have been surprising.
		One by one, Abbas is measuring properties of individual dust grains returned by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972 and the Russian Luna-24 sample-return spacecraft that landed on the Moon in 1976.
		The dozen Apollo astronauts who walked on the moon between 1969 and 1972 were all surprised by how "sticky" moondust was.
	www.universetoday.com /am/publish/mesmerized_by_moondust.html (785 words)

	Index: Stories, Listed by Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Fall of “The House of Deuteronomy” • Craig Rice • (nf)
		The Fall of the Bastille • Hyman Bradofsky • (vi)
		The Fall of the Fothergays • Noel Langley • (ss)
	users.ev1.net /~homeville/fictionmag/l334.htm (1274 words)

	Moondust.htm Review of the Arthur C Clarke SF novel A Fall of Moondust
		Number 49 in Gollancz's "SF Masterworks" series is this welcome reprinting of an early Clarke classic.
		Buried beneath the choking fine dust, the crew and passengers await rescue while, on the surface, their rescuers have to contend with the inhospitable and unpredictable environment themselves.
		I thoroughly recommend readers new to SF to this compelling series of novels which are, as Iain Banks is quoted as saying, "genuinely the best novels from sixty years of SF." Gollancz are to be congratulated on maintaining this fine list.
	www.concatenation.org /frev/moondust.html (140 words)

	Sandcastle V.I. - Arthur C Clark & Isaac Asimov / Clarke's Written Works
		In "Against the Fall of Night," another young man challenges the accepted way of life that has existed within a walled city for millions of years and explores the wastelands outside the city walls.
		Plot: Eight years after the initial publication of "Against the Fall of Night," Clarke revisited that novel and completely rewrote his story of a young man who ventures outside a city that has isolated itself from the outside for millions of years.
		Plot: In this sequel to "Beyond the Fall of Night" and "The City and the Stars," the young man who dared rebel against million of years of tradition continues his journey of exploration outside the walled city.
	www.sandcastlevi.com /scifi/other/sf-book1.htm (1324 words)

	Moon Fountains
		Positive charges build up until the tiniest particles of lunar dust (measuring 1 micron and smaller) are repelled from the surface and lofted anywhere from meters to kilometers high, with the smallest particles reaching the highest altitudes, Stubbs explains.
		Perhaps the most famous novel about lunar dust, also written before any Apollo astronauts set foot on the Moon, was "A Fall of Moondust" by Arthur C. Clark (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961).
		In the first chapter, a moonquake entombs a lunar tour bus beneath 20 meters of lunar dust; the next 30 chapters are devoted to the rescue of its occupants.
	science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2005/30mar_moonfountains.htm?list51473 (1370 words)

	Arthur C Clarke: A Fall of Moondust - an infinity plus review
		Women are generally there to look pretty, become hysterical, or, ultimately, get pregnant - perhaps less an indictment of Clarke than of the era in which he wrote.
		Initially I had my doubts as to whether A Fall of Moondust would justify its inclusion as a one of the Gollancz Masterworks of modern sf.
		Perhaps it would be more suited as a reprint in their resurrected line of C-format 'yellow backs'.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/moondust.htm (733 words)

	Moondust :: Astrobiology Magazine ::
		Summary (Aug 15, 2005): The new book "Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth" shows how the Apollo program changed the lives of the astronauts who walked on the Moon.
		Perhaps the most remarkable feat in this most remarkable of goals is that all the Moonwalkers survived their missions, and were able to once again walk on the solid ground of Earth.
		Still, where Armstrong got to be the first one to stand on another celestial body, Conrad has the more joyous distinction of being the first to fall over on one.
	www.astrobio.net /news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1680&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (1051 words)

	Moon dust and the age of the solar system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When this is done, most current estimates of the meteoritic dust influx rate to the earth fall in the range of 10, 000-20, 000 tons per year, although some suggest this rate could still be as much as up to 100,000 tons per year.
		If five million tons of meteoritic dust fall to the earth each year, of which 2.5 per cent is nickel, the amount of nickel added to each square centimetre of ocean bottom would be.000000025 gram per year, or.017 per cent of the total red-clay sediment deposited in a year.
		Nevertheless, it could be argued that these two estimates still fall within the range of 8,000 -30,000 tons per year suggested by Hughes.
	www.answersingenesis.org /tj/v7/i1/moondust.asp (14039 words)

	Arthur C. Clarke
		A Fall of Moondust is another one of those personal survival stories in the middle of disaster.
		In certain areas, the great weight of not just millennia, but billions of years of history will press upon you, where the discovery of ages old items will be as much of an adventure as watching our first manned lunar mission.
		This book was a near total rewrite of "Against the Fall of Night".
	www.hyperpat.com /clarke.html (909 words)

	Index: Books, Listed by Title
		The Fall of Chronopolis and Collision with Chronos • Barrington J. Bayley • (om)
		The Fall of the House of Usher • Edgar Allan Poe • (co)
		The Fall of the Republic • Crawford Kilian • (n.)
	www.locusmag.com /index/k43.html (1262 words)

	Arthur C. Clarke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clarke, after Lewis's death, voiced great praise for him, saying the Ransom Trilogy was one of the few works of science fiction that could be considered literature.
		An Arthur C. Clarke Second Omnibus (1968, including A Fall of Moondust, Earthlight and The Sands of Mars)
		Against the Fall of Night in Startling Stories.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke (2936 words)

	NASA - Mesmerized by Moondust
		Using laser beams and electric fields, NASA researchers are probing the curious behavior of moondust.
		By adjusting the chamber's electric fields with painstaking care, Abbas can keep the grain centered; he can measure its changing charge and explore its fascinating characteristics.
		Right: A single grain of moondust hangs suspended in Abba's vacuum chamber.
	science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2005/21nov_abbas.htm?list38463 (749 words)

	Amazon.com: Moondust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith (Hardcover - Aug 1, 2005)
		Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith (Paperback - Aug 1, 2006)
		A Fall of Moondust (S.F.Masterworks S.) by Arthur C. Clarke (Paperback - Mar 14, 2002)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&search-alias=aps&keywords=Moondust&page=1 (306 words)

	O'Neill-type colony
		In 1973, George Hazelrigg, also of Princeton, suggested that the L4 and L5 Lagrangian points might be ideal locations for O'Neill's large habitats.
		(The idea of locating a large structure at one of these special orbital locationspoint can be traced back further to the 1961 novel A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke).
		L4 and L5 are points of gravitational equilibrium located on the Moon’s orbit at equal distances from both Earth and the Moon.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/O/ONeill_type.html (398 words)

	Building my Dreams from Moondust....?!
		Special aviaries have been created for the six birds within one of the towers of the fortress on the Thames.
		UK ministers said it was still not necessary to lock up Britain's 20m free-range poultry, despite some experts backing it.
		Yaaay….that time of year again…Joy…..I can already hear the violins and the sound of rose petals as they gently fall on the ground, showering loving couples as they walk hand in hand on this, their feast.
	pileofmoondust.blogspot.com (2047 words)

	Books, Listed by Author
		* _Against the Fall of Night and Beyond the Fall of Night (with Gregory Benford) (Gollancz 0-575-04765-8, Apr ’91, £13.99, 239pp, hc, cover by David Farren) [Against the Fall of Night] Reprint (Ace/Putnam 1990 as Beyond the Fall of Night) collection of Clarke’s classic short novel and a modern sequel by Greg Benford.
		* _Against the Fall of Night and Beyond the Fall of Night (with Gregory Benford) (Orbit 1-8572-3026-4, Jun ’92, £4.99, 326pp, pb, cover by Chris Moore) [Against the Fall of Night] Reprint (Putnam 1990 as Beyond the Fall of Night) anthology of Clarke’s classic short novel and a modern sequel by Greg Benford.
		Expanded version of Against the Fall of Night (Gnome 1953), which is itself back in print as part of Beyond the Fall of Night.
	www.locusmag.com /index/b100.html (2762 words)

	Amazon.com: A Fall of Moondust: Books: Arthur C. Clarke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Reading large scale "space operas", one would expect that the action in this novel is not as gripping since it revolves around a very confined area.
		Most SciFi writers are able to convey a story, but fall through on their deficiency in technology.
		What makes this book fall slightly behind stuff like "Rendezvous with Rama" or "Childhood's end" is mainly that the setting is so small (and realistic!) that the ending becomes predictable.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0575602902?v=glance (2054 words)

	Arthur C. Clarke - Salon
		As Clarke had said of Kepler, "He was both a scientist and a mystic." The fabulist in him was stimulated by the new frontier, but his inner scientist was guarded.
		Clarke was prolific, publishing novels -- "Earthlight" (1955), "A Fall of Moondust" (1961) -- and collections of essays and lectures.
		In April 1964, while in New York to work on a Time-Life book called "Man and Space," the Time Traveller was summoned to Trader Vic's in the Plaza Hotel to meet director Stanley Kubrick.
	dir.salon.com /story/people/bc/2000/03/07/clarke/?pn=2 (798 words)

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		Clarke, Arthur C. A Fall of Moondust, 254 pages, 1961, $3.50.
		This (and the next three books) are the start of a re-issue of selected works by A. Clarke.
		First out are two novels, The Sands of Mars and A Fall of Moondust, and two anthologies, The Wind From the Sun and The Nine Billion Names of God.
	www.plaidworks.org /chuqui/downloads/OtherRealms/14-03.txt (3139 words)

	Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ Science Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		My first adult experience with the genre was Arthur C. Clark's A Fall of Moondust.
		I watched Star Trek as a kid when it originally aired, and have been a devout fan ever since.
		Asimov pioneered the the grand sweeping epic covering the rise and fall of galactic civilization.
	www.downes.ca /me/sf.htm (429 words)

	Christian Sauvé's Book Reviews: October 2000
		Written at a time where humans had barely entered the space age, and fully eight years before we went to the Moon, A Fall of Moondust posits the existence of a vast lunar "sea" of very fine dust with liquid-like properties.
		A Fall of Moondust isn't fancy, but you don't need to be complex in order to build a novel of humans against desperate odds.
		The result, at least, is clear: A Fall of Moondust is well-worth a re-visit for those who read it at least a decade ago, and pretty much a must-read for the others.
	www.christian-sauve.com /reviews/2000/books00j.htm (4211 words)

	www.hyperbear.com: Cthulhu - A Fall of MOON DUST, session 1
		The agents are sent to western Maine on what appears to be a simple reconnaissance mission.
		They went to bed, the men in one room and MAYA in the other.
		Next Session: A Fall of MOON DUST, session 2
	www.hyperbear.com /cthulhu/writeups-dg/cthulhu-scenarios-dg-2003-10-18-b.html (1469 words)

	Buy Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Books Online UK
		Eugenics Wars 1: The Rise And Fall Of Khan Noonian Singh
		Fall Of The House Of Usher" And Other Stories
		Fall Of The House Of Usher", "the Pit And The Pendulum" And Other Tales Of Mystery And Imagination
	www.book-shop-uk.co.uk /uk-1500-5700.html (1197 words)

	TYPICALLY petshopboys - lyrics h
		Hallo spaceboy (Bowie/Eno) (If I fall, moondust will cover me, moondust will cover me...
		If I fall, moondust will cover me If I fall, moondust will cover me) Spaceboy, you're sleepy now Your silhouette is so stationary You're released, but your custody calls And I wanna be free Don't you wanna be free?
		It's confusing these days But moondust will cover you Cover you So bye bye love Yeah, bye bye love Hallo spaceboy This chaos is killing me Hallo spaceboy (Spaceboy, spaceboy, spaceboy...
	members.home.nl /kmalda/psb/lyrics-h.htm (895 words)

	Juliet E McKenna - The Official Einarinn Website - My Life As A Writer - review Arthur C Clarke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		But hang on, and a quick check of Halliwell confirms this, the heyday of the disaster movie was the seventies.
		A Fall of Moondust was written in 1960, so it's hardly fair to condemn Arthur C Clarke on that basis.
		I'd certainly recommend it to all budding writers as a master-class in writing technique but more importantly, I'll recommend it to anyone, fan or non-fan, old or young as a simply splendid read.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /juliet.e.mckenna/reviewclarke.html (870 words)

	Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The implication, of course, is that libraries should receive more funding to buy more books and other resources.
		Now I am the first to admit the importance of libraries in my own development; I still remember pulling Arthur C. Clark's A Fall of Moondust off the shelf for the first time at the Township library, and John Christopher's The White Mountains in the school library.
		It is not surprising that a report sponsored by publishers (as this one is) would advocate the buying of books, but someone has to explain to my why this is better than providing access online to all the books in the world.
	www.downes.ca /cgi-bin/page.cgi?journal=2152 (468 words)

	New Page 3
		A RE-BROADCAST of a BBC production about a cruise liner which falls victim to a sinkhole as it skims over the dust seas of the Moon.
		Worth a listen, but it doesn't fall into the normal genre of "horror", but more of a suspenseful fable.
		A trucker on a lonely road to Homerville seeks out a little company on his CB radio, but the other truckers are horrified to learn of his destination, and plead with him to turn around, to avoid Homerville at any cost.
	www.otrplotspot.com /Nightfall.htm (6393 words)

	Arthur C. Clarke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist-cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust while, on the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the mercilessly unpredictable conditions of a totally alien environment.
		A brilliantly imagined story of human ingenuity and survival, A Fall of Moondust is a tour-de-force of psychological suspense and sustained dramatic tension.
		Sf Masterworks is a library of the greatest SF ever written, chosen with the help of today’s leading SF writers and editors.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/arthurcclarke2.html (525 words)

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