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STEPHEN BAXTER MOONSEED THE NASA TRILOGY HarperVoyager an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 1998 Copyright © Stephen Baxter 1998 Cover photo © NASA Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2015 Stephen Baxter asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library. This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Source ISBN: 9780008134532 Ebook Edition © June 2012 ISBN 9780007392353 Version: 2015-10-07 For Sandra, with all my love CONTENTS Henry Meacher, geologist, NASA Geena Bourne, Space Station astronaut Jane Dundas, shopkeeper Arkady Berezovoy, Space Station astronaut GREAT BRITAIN EDINBURGH: Jack Dundas, son of Jane Mike Dundas, technician Ted Dundas, retired police officer Ruth Clark, neighbour of Ted Dundas Hamish Macrae, aka Bran, cult leader Billy Macrae, brother of Hamish Alan Macrae, father of Hamish Dan McDiarmid, geologist, Edinburgh University Marge Case, geologist, Edinburgh University Constable Morag Decker, police officer Blue Ishiguro, geologist, USGS William MacEwen, police superintendent Paula Romano, Chief Constable Archie Ferguson, Emergency Planning Officer Janice Docherty, hospital patient Siobhan Reader, Musselburgh Rest Centre manager OTHER: Bob Farnes, Prime Minister Dave Holland, Environment Secretary Indira Bhide, Home Secretary Debbie Sturrock, firefighter, Dunbar William Calder, Jackie Brown, rig workers Jenny Calder, wife to William UNITED STATES NASA: Jays Malone, Apollo astronaut Tom Barber, Apollo astronaut Tracy Malone, daughter to Jays Harry Maddicott, JSC director Sixt Guth, Space Station astronaut Bonnie Jones, Space Station astronaut Frank Turtle, engineer, JSC Solar System Exploration Division OTHER: Monica Beus, physicist Alfred Synge, astronomer Scott Coplon, geologist, US Geological Survey Joely Stern, e-zine journalist Cecilia