Alternate Apollos
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Alternate Apollos collects three short stories by Vaughan Stanger on the theme of counterfactual moon-landing missions.
Rather than focus on the details of Apollo missions that never happened or turned out differently to those described in our history books, these stories show how the participants might have felt when recalling those momentous events many years later.
Alternate Apollos is dedicated to the brave men who really did fly to the Moon between 1969 and 1972. Twelve sets of boot-prints remain in place, testimony to events that actually occurred.
Vaughan Stanger
Until recently, Vaughan Stanger worked as a research manager at a British engineering company. From 1997 to 2011, he wrote science fiction and fantasy stories in his spare time, effectively setting himself homework. The results of this head-scratching were published in Nature Futures, Interzone, Postscripts, Daily Science Fiction and Music for Another World, to name but a few. Translations of his stories have appeared in nine languages.In January 2012 Vaughan became a full-time writer. Currently he's busy writing an SF novel. The head-scratching has got worse if anything. There are also some new stories in the works, plus further e-book compilations of his previously published stories to come.
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Alternate Apollos - Vaughan Stanger
Alternate Apollos
Vaughan Stanger
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Copyright Vaughan Stanger March 2013
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All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, whether living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Table of Contents
Cover
Title
Introduction
Moon Flu
Sons of the Earth
Dying of the Light
Bibliography
About the Author
About the Illustrator
Other Books by the Author
Spread the Word!
Introduction
I am not the first science fiction writer to have imagined counterfactual versions of the Apollo project. Jerry Oltion and Stephen Baxter are two names that spring immediately to mind, and there are doubtless many others. While it's great fun to dwell on the details of alternative moon-landing missions, what I wanted to do in this set of short stories was to depict how the participants might have felt when recalling those momentous events some years later.
Since the publication of Sons of the Earth
more than one reader has asked me whether I believed in its premise. My answer to that question is unequivocal: absolutely not. But for a writer, not believing in something isn't the same as having no desire to