Hickam, Homer H.

The Earth is devastated and the worst elements of humanity are determined to take over the moon. It's up to the settlers of the harsh, gray moon to fight back.

Josh Thurlow returns to his Atlantic Ocean island home of Killakeet Island to command a Coast Guard unit and to continue his search for clues to the whereabouts of his brother who has been missing for seventeen years.

Homer Hickam chronicles the events that took place during his senior year in his hometown of Coalwood, West Virginia.

True story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.

Crater Trueblood, doubting the justice of the war he fights and the evil of enemies he was trained to hate, brings Crescent, an apparently female Crowhopper, to Moontown as his prisoner but soon both are fugitives, fleeing prejudice and cruelty in hostile territory.

Rocket engineer Jack Medaris, having failed in his attempt to build a machine that would travel to the moon and collect an isotope desperately needed to produce energy on Earth, and hoping to redeem himself for what he sees as a personal failure, highjacks the space shuttle Columbia and heads for the lunar surface.

Rocket engineer Jack Medaris, having failed in his attempt to build a machine that would travel to the moon and collect an isotope desperately needed to produce energy on Earth, and hoping to redeem himself for what he sees as a personal failure, highjacks the space shuttle Columbia and heads for the lunar surface.

Homar Hickam chronicles the experiences he has as a young boy growing up in the small coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia.

In the twenty-second century, Crater Trueblood, who mines the Moon for Helium-3 to produce energy for a war-torn Earth, undertakes a mission that could mean the difference between life and death for every inhabitant on the Moon.