STAY ALIVE ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON
What happens when you get the one thing you wanted most in life? Lonely 16-year-old farm girl Barbara Winton has been following one reality show for years. Then in an instant she goes from fangirl to participant when the call comes from Dr. Keegan Bright: She’s been selected out of a horde of applicants to join him on the Moon.
She’ll be one of his Bright Sparks, six students with expertise in STEM and plenty of their own ingenuity chosen to work with Dr. Bright and given big responsibilities to undertake new projects important to the growth of the colony. Her first task? Build a radar telescope using an entire crater on the far side of the Moon.
But Barbara soon learns that life on a burgeoning frontier outpost like the Moon is a far cry from safe, civilized Earth. The loner from farm country must find a way to weld a functional team out of fiercely independent thinkers. Not only are they a bit trickier to work with than farm robots, not only is the working environment incredibly dangerous—she also has to perform this miracle in front of millions of fans. . . .
Lexile Score: 770
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Good, slightly too shortQuality-wise, it was really good. Quantity-wise, it felt kind of short for a full-Baen-price ebook. Definitely worth it, but hard on my ebook budget because I'm already done reading it and have to find something new.
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RAH's "Podkayne of Mars" mixes with a dash of John Campbell's "The Moon is Hell" for a delightfully fresh new story.
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Space story in the old styleFantastic story written in a way that reminded me of Heinlein's books. Hope there will be more of the Bright Star's.
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