Jim Black
1/19/2012
"Rogue Moon" is one of the classic "big dumb object" stories. An alien artifact is discovered on the Moon. Anyone who enters the construct dies. How do you get around this problem? Enter Dr. Edward Hawks. Hawks has developed a matter transmitter. The astronauts on the Moonbase assemble the transmitter so new "explorers" can transport from the Earth to the Moon. The transmitter does not work quite like the transporters in Star Trek. In this book, the transmitter makes a duplicate that is assembled in the receiver by using materials on the Moon. The original stays in mental contact with the duplicate. So far when one of the duplicates enters the structure and is killed, the original goes insane. The solution to this problem is Al Barker.
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