Rating: Not rated
Tags: Fiction, Hard Science Fiction, General, Space Exploration, Space Opera, Science Fiction, Lang:en
Summary
Out of print for more than two decades, John M.
Ford's Growing Up Weightless
is an award-winning classic of a “lost
generation” of young people born on the human-colonized
Moon.
Matthias Ronay has grown up in the low gravity and great
glass citadels of independent Luna—and in the
considerable shadow of his father, a member of the council
that governs Luna's increasingly complex society. But Matt
feels weighed down on the world where he was born, where
there is no more need for exploration, for innovation, for
radical ideas—and where his every movement can be
tracked by his father on the infonets. Matt and five of his friends, equally brilliant and
restless, have planned a secret adventure. They will trick
the electronic sentinels, slip out of the city for a journey
to Farside. Their passage into the expanse of perpetual night
will change them in ways they never could have
predicted...and bring Matt to the destiny for which he has
yearned.