Lunar Discovery: Let the Space Race Begin

Salvador Mercer

Jun 2018 · Discovery Series Book 1 · Diamond Star Publishing

About this ebook

When a Chinese rover discovers an alien technology on the dark side of the moon, it is up to Richard ‘Rock’ Crandon and his NASA team of scientists and engineers to devise a way to return before the Chinese and Russians.Forced to deal with bureaucratic oversight and a complex team of personalities, Rock Crandon pushes his team to their limits.

With pressure mounting, the world is pushed closer to conflict and war as the NASA team finds itself seriously behind in the newly initiated space race. The future of mankind, its ideological and technological advances are at stake, as the world's super powers race to discover what lies on the dark side of the moon.

Who will get there first, and at what cost?

Ratings and reviews

It made me imagine what movies wanted people to imagine - that at long last, the work of SETI (Search for Extra Terristerial Intelligence) is now a success. The story twisted a single scientific event into a suspenseful conflict, complete with technical details and explanations, and showed the danger of this event from man alone - with his foolishness, careless curiosity, lack of foresight, unreasonable pride, and extreme nationalism.

I have not read this book yet but the stories of what the actual Chinese rover is finding on the far side (dark as in hidden from our direct view) is making me wonder if those stories were written by someone that read the book first. A gel like substance in one crator and a gravometric anomaly buried hundreds of miles deep in another huge crator are mentioned on Medium webpage. Israel and India have crashed on the moon while attempting to land plus sent probes that were designed to crash anyway. Just saying it seems like nations are trying to get back up there. Must be something alien on the far side.

The plot was thin, acronyms were over-explained, the characters were stereotypes and the writing was basic. It could have been so much more than this but it feels like the author didn't really care enough about what they were writing. It's alright but nothing special at all. Read it if you're absolutely stuck and just need some words to tide you over until you can get to something better

About the author

Salvador Mercer loves to read. Having read the works from Tolkien, McCaffrey, Donaldson, Asimov, Burroughs, Crichton, and many others, the desire to write took over the once sane man and now he finds himself immersed in telling tall tales and intricate fables from this world, and across the stars to many others.

Salvador Mercer is fluent in English, Russian and Spanish, having served in the US Army, 750th Military Intelligence Brigade as a Russian Voice Intercept Operator, works in the field of Public Transit, loves languages, history, reading, boating, traveling, and science. He lives in Ohio with his three boys.