INCONSTANT MOON (SPHERE SCIENCE FICTION)

by Larry Niven

Book Overview

A freelance technical writer notices that the moon is unusually bright. At first, he thinks it is some kind of atmospheric phenomenon, but soon he realizes he will be spending his last night alive.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0722163819
• ISBN13: 9780722163818
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: SPHERE
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Gotta love Niven

Niven or his publisher has figured out how to sell his short stories one by one. This is just a short story. But it is an excellent one. He always surprises me with his understanding of human nature. Risk a buck. Get it.

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The moon suddenly has greatly increased luminosity. Gradually the protagonist begins to realise that this heralds an astronomical disaster, and has to work out how to spend his last night alive. He has a brainwave, realises he might be wrong, and along with his girlfriend try and take shelter in her place, which is high above the ground, in case his second idea is correct.

As always with short stories , there's up's and down's.

Seven short stories , at least three were published before elsewhere. Niven is really strong in short-one's and the best one here is "Inconstant moon" - an excellent story about a guy waking up in the middle of the night , realizes that the moon gives-out as much light as the sun.everybody around him are happy and in a festival mood , only he understands that if the moon is so bright then the sun must have gone nova , and the earth is not-so-slowly turning to show it's night-side to the incandecent glare.As he understands that those are his final hours , he joins the partying in the streets for there's nothing he can do...

An awesome book for Sci-Fi fans.

I recently read this short story for my Literature class and absolutely loved it! It's a story about learning to live life to it's fullest when we find it's our last day on Earth. I was also amazed to find out that it was televised in the same-titled episode of "The Outer Limits." It has clean content, no profanity that I can recall, and over all is a neat story. "Perhaps it's not how we face death that defines us, but how we face life. To live each day with hope, caring, and love, as if it were our last." -Control Voice "The Outer Limits" INCONSTANT MOON