This is apparently the third in Steele’s “Near Space” series.\u00a0 I am very late to the party in reading it, as I’ve only read one other Steele book.\u00a0 It read well not knowing about the other books.\u00a0 An interesting premise, following workers on the Moon.\u00a0 Lots of interesting extrapolation, although it did throw me a bit to be reading a book set in 2024 that has so little bearing on our present use of the Moon’s resources. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n
I liked this one well-enough that I will be continuing to search out more from Steele’s backlist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is apparently the third in Steele’s “Near Space” series.\u00a0 I am very late to the party in reading it, as I’ve only read one other Steele book.\u00a0 It read well not knowing about the other books.\u00a0 An interesting premise, following workers on the Moon.\u00a0 Lots of interesting extrapolation, although it did throw me a … Continue reading “Lunar Descent<\/i> by Allen Steele (1991)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30,40],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-take","tag-book","tag-sf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}