The Eagle Has Landed

**The lone survivor of a lunar crash, waiting for rescue in a solar powered suit, must keep walking for thirty days to remain in the sunlight keeping her alive . . . life as an ice miner turns ugly as the workers’ resentment turns from sabotage to murder . . . an astronaut investigating a strange crash landing encounters an increasing number of doppelgangers of herself . . . a nuclear bomb with a human personality announces to a moon colony that it will soon explode . . . hundreds of years in the future, art forgers working on the lunar surface travel back in time to swap out priceless art, rescuing it from what will become a destroyed Earth . . . **

On July 20, 1969, mankind made what had only years earlier seemed like an impossible leap forward: Apollo 11 became the first manned mission to land on the moon, and Neil Armstrong the first person to step foot on the lunar surface. While there have only been a handful of new missions since, the fascination with our planet’s satellite continues, and generations of writers and artists have imagined the endless possibilities of lunar life.

The Eagle Has Landed collects the best stories written in the fifty years since mankind first stepped foot on the lunar surface, serving as a shining reminder that the moon is a visible and constant example of all the infinite possibility of the wider universe.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Bagatelle by John Varley

The Eve of the Last Apollo by Carter Scholz

The Lunatics by Kim Stanley Robinson

Griffin’s Egg by Michael Swanwick

A Walk in the Sun by Geoffrey A. Landis

Waging Good by Robert Reed

How We Lost the Moon by Paul McAuley

People Came From Earth by Stephen Baxter

Ashes and Tombstones by Brian Stableford

Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl’s by Adam Troy Castro

Stories for Men by John Kessel

The Clear Blue Seas of Luna by Gregory Benford

You Will Go to the Moon by William Preston

SeniorSource by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The Economy of Vacuum by Sarah Thomas

The Cassandra Project by Jack McDevitt

Fly Me to the Moon by Marianne J. Dyson

Tyche and the Ants by Hannu Rajaniemi

The Moon Belongs to Everyone by Michael Alexander and K.C. Ball

The Fifth Dragon by Ian McDonald

Let Baser Things Devise by Berrien C. Henderson

The Moon is Not a Battlefield by Indrapramit Das

Every Hour of Light and Dark by Nancy Kress

In Event of Moon Disaster by Rich Larson

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