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Featured Sci-fi: Hot Moon (Apollo Rising: Book One) by Alan Smale

June 25, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Hot Moon (Apollo Rising: Book One) by Alan Smale

FREE as of June 25, 2025
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One of the most critically acclaimed hard science fiction novels from a two-time Sidewise Award winning author.

“A nail-biting thriller.”−Publishers Weekly

“I loved it. Great ‘hard’ science fiction with convincing space battles. “−Larry Niven

“Will delight and enthrall.”−Library Journal

“A provocative science fiction novel.”−Foreword ReviewsAn alternate 1979. The Moon is the new front line. And one woman is caught in the crossfire.

Hot Moon isn’t just another adventure book. It’s a gripping alternate-history thriller packed with Cold War tension, hard science fiction, and pulse-pounding action—in a setting so real, you’ll smell the lunar dust.

In this intriguing unique setting, the U.S. and Soviet Union have Moon bases, orbiting stations, and spy satellites. Space isn’t a frontier anymore—it’s a battlefield.

Enter Apollo 32. Enter Vivian Carter. Enter disaster.

On a routine mission, astronaut Vivian Carter finds herself in the middle of a Soviet attack on a U.S. space station. Forced to spacewalk through a vacuum just to survive, she returns to the Moon only to discover something worse: the war isn’t over. It’s just getting started.

Stranded. Outnumbered. Unarmed.

She and her crew must improvise, adapt, and fight back—before the Moon becomes a Soviet stronghold.

From two-time Sidewise Award winner and former NASA director Alan Smale, Hot Moon delivers credibility with blockbuster-level storytelling.

This is for fans of The Martian, For All Mankind, and Red Storm Rising—for readers who crave unique intense addictive novels and a riveting captivating thought provoking storyline.

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