A Fall of Moondust
- 224
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“A Fall of Moondust” is a tense, ingenious survival story aboard a lunar tourist cruiser, grounded in Clarke’s hard science. The crew and passengers of the Selene face a chain of dangers in the Sea of Thirst, a crater filled with fine lunar dust. Some readers find the prose workmanlike and the women drawn with the assumptions of the early 1960s; others feel it has aged well for its time.
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About the book
A Fall of Moondust is a hard science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1961. It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel, and was the first science fiction novel selected to become a Reader's Digest Condensed Book.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.4 across 56 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 28% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.4 | 56 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is A Fall of Moondust?
It has 224 pages — shorter than 91% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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