Rogue Moon (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Algis Budrys
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—inner space
- Time of Work: 1959-1960
- Setting: The Pacific Coast of the United States and the far side of the Moon
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, United States or Americans, Extraterrestrial life, Death or dying, Moon or moons, Dopplegangers
- Locales: West (U.S.), Moon
The Plot
Dr. Edward Hawks has invented a method of electronically encoding a human and simultaneously transmitting the code to both the Moon and his laboratory. The original is destroyed in the process, but neither duplicate accepts that it is not the original. Hawks is put in charge of a project to unlock the mystery of an alien artifact discovered on the far side of the Moon. The U.S. Navy drops receiving equipment for Hawks’s device close to the artifact, and Hawks’ project has beamed Navy personnel duplicates to the receiver while at the same time creating duplicates in...
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