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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