Magnificent Desolation
2002-Mar-10, 01:50 PM
The following is the link(s) to Arlan Andrews´s sci-fi "what if" short story "The Great Moon Hoax".
The short story is clearly not written by a hoax believer as it is written pretty much "tongue-in-cheek".
The introduction, under "2001 Archieve", reads:
"Arlan has been an SF fan for almost 50 years, an SF pro for about 20 years, with his first sales in 1979 to Omni (a two-page novelty chart, "Elements of SF") and Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine (a poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Engineer"). Since then, his SF has appeared in Analog, SF Review, SF Age, Fantasy Book and Pulphouse, as well as in anthologies (Nanodreams, How to Save the World), along with speculative articles dealing with everything from the future of nanotech manufacturing to aspects of the esoteric and paranormal.
To imagine ol' Lyndon Johnson trying to get hundreds of industry and Civil Service people to work together surreptitiously, risking devastating scandals and civil lawsuits, not to mention federal prison, all just to fake Moon landings is quite ridiculous. Or is it...what would it have taken in the US government to hoax such a thing? This story is the answer."
The link to the short story is:
http://www.ideomancer.com/sf/Andrews-Moon/Andrews-Moon.htm
.. and the link to the printable version:
http://www.ideomancer.com/sf/Andrews-Moon/Andrews-Moongs.htm
"Magnificent Desolation"
The short story is clearly not written by a hoax believer as it is written pretty much "tongue-in-cheek".
The introduction, under "2001 Archieve", reads:
"Arlan has been an SF fan for almost 50 years, an SF pro for about 20 years, with his first sales in 1979 to Omni (a two-page novelty chart, "Elements of SF") and Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine (a poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Engineer"). Since then, his SF has appeared in Analog, SF Review, SF Age, Fantasy Book and Pulphouse, as well as in anthologies (Nanodreams, How to Save the World), along with speculative articles dealing with everything from the future of nanotech manufacturing to aspects of the esoteric and paranormal.
To imagine ol' Lyndon Johnson trying to get hundreds of industry and Civil Service people to work together surreptitiously, risking devastating scandals and civil lawsuits, not to mention federal prison, all just to fake Moon landings is quite ridiculous. Or is it...what would it have taken in the US government to hoax such a thing? This story is the answer."
The link to the short story is:
http://www.ideomancer.com/sf/Andrews-Moon/Andrews-Moon.htm
.. and the link to the printable version:
http://www.ideomancer.com/sf/Andrews-Moon/Andrews-Moongs.htm
"Magnificent Desolation"