Earthlight, Volume 1: Volume 1

by Stuart Moore

Book Overview

The year: 2068. The place: Earthlight Lunar Colony, an international melting pot of scientific discovery and global tensions. Population: 228 adults - and 42 kids. Fifteen-year-old Damon Cole, who's just arrived on the moon, is one of the first students at the new Earthlight Academy. It's tough being the new kid - but it's even worse when your mother is your teacher. And when your father is Chief Administrator of the entire colony, that's really asking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598167057
• ISBN13: 9781598167054
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Tokyopop Classics
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 7.3"
• Age Range: 12 to 1 year
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 1

Customer Reviews

It's about Time!

This book takes Japanese manga where it needs to go with direct involvement of various cultures. I have been a fan of Japanese animation for almost two decades, and this book represents the cutting edge of the industry with a universal and coherent storyline, 5 Stars. Keep up the good work! I am also looking forward to volume 2!

SF manga with American grit

I adore Japanese manga and Japanese culture. But their culture isn't ours. Earthlight manages to catch the best of both. The lunar Earthlight colony is a multinational melting pot - 54 squabbling, troubled nations funded it, and sent some lucky few to live up there. The parents are busy 24/7, the kids ... are kids. Smart independent teens, but realistically written - they have problems beyond their ability to solve. The lunar environment is harsh, the cost of mistakes catastrophic. And worst of all punishments - the threat of being sent back to live on Earth, where life has gotten more and more difficult as the years have gone by. This first volume started a little slow, in that the main human character hadn't arrived yet - we start out by meeting the environment, almost a character in itself. But then we get to the human characters, too, and it ended with a bang! I'm really looking forward to volume 2!