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Donald Kingsbury is a mathematician and instructor at McGill University in Montreal. His previous novel, Courtship Rite, received widespread critical acclaim and was a finalist for the coveted Hugo Award. The novella upon which THE MOON GODDESS AND THE SON is based also received that distinction, one of five to reach the final Hugo ballot at the World Science Fiction Convention.

The time is the late 1980s. Once again the Russians have shaken the Americans with a space spectacular—one that far outstrips the launching of Sputnik in 1958. This time they have secretly lofted a full-scale space station that dwarfs the one the U.S. hopes to build in the ’90s.

The American response—as it was in the late 1950s—is a crash program to overtake and surpass the Soviet effort. And by 2010 their efforts have succeeded. Burgeoning space industry has resulted in an economic boom unprecedented in U.S. history—and man will never again be confined to Earth.

But it is the people behind the U.S. space program that make it succeed—and that make THE MOON GODDESS AND THE SON so memorable.

“Man’s journey to the stars will be no mere historical abstraction: it will take many specific steps by individual men and women. The key stepping-stone is Kingsbury’s own invention, and a mind-boggler it is: as grandiose and daring as a transcontinental railroad might have seemed to the Mayflower crew—and just as possible.”
— Stanley Schmidt, editor, Analog

“I admit with some envy that Kingsbury’s epic reminds me of Michener’s Space. The theme is similar: that talented cadre of hardnoses we follow to new frontiers, literally to new worlds. But Kingsbury’s people remind me more of some I’ve met in our push to space: raffish, impatient, wonderfully human—and grasping for the superhuman.”
—Dean Ing, author of Mutual Assured Survival and The Future of Flight

“Award-Winning and Critically Acclaimed Sci-fi Author Donald Kingsbury Re-releases His Classic Masterpiece

An interesting tale designed to take the reader on an out-of-this-world trip that includes the space race, game theories, approaching conflict interspersed with trysts, and love turmoil. “The Moon Goddess and the Son,” a classic sci-fi masterwork by Donald Kingsbury hits the market again in its 2021 edition.

Donald Kingsbury extended his masterwork and released it with Baen Books after its popularity as a novella and nomination for the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1980. The Chicago Sun-Times, Locus, prominent sci-fi author Jerry Pournelle, the Library Journal, and New York Newsday all praised the initial edition of the book.

“The author of ‘Courtship Rite’ brings to this novel of the near-future a rare sensitivity for characterization as well as an acute perception of the links between past and future. Recommended.” —Library Journal

In this 2021 edition, Kingsbury has included a backup piece that describes the novel’s technology and concept. In 1978-79, Analog magazine published a two-part piece co-authored by Kingsbury and Roger Arnold titled ‘The Spaceport,’ which confirms the factual component of Kingsbury’s story.

With many leaps from one story thread to the next, the novel manages to tackle numerous stories at the same time. Kingsbury, on the other hand, was able to reconcile and make ends meet, resulting in an intellectually stimulating and gratifying finish, especially for sci-fi fans. Kingsbury is also the author of the critically acclaimed novel “Courtship Rite,” which was nominated for a Hugo Award and was one of the finalists.”

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