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Jack McDevitt is the author of numerous prize-winning short stories and novels. His first, The Hercules Test, won the Philip K. Dick Special Award. Engines of God was strongly praised by the trade in both the US and Britain and is still selling well. Jack lives in the US with his family.

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The ultimate disaster novel

A comet is coming.
It’s going to hit the moon.
And it’s going to fall.
On us.

Out of the blindside of a total solar eclipse comes a fundamental threat to life on our planet. Moonbase, the NASA project establishing at last permanent human activity on the moon, has been up and running for precisely five days. If it’s knocked out, it’ll be a hell of a blow to the US President, Henry Kolladner, who came to office riding high on the space ticket.

And it’ll be a blow to his deputy too, Vice President Charlie Haskell, who’s actually up there, ready for the inauguration speech. And if the comet fully impacts, there’ll be no more moon at all. Billions of tons of lunar rock will crash to Earth. There’ll be tidal waves, quakes, global destruction.

It’s a tough call for the President. Does he declare a state of emergency and start evacuating the entire coastal population of America? Imagine the chaos, the looting, the riots…

Should he panic?
Wouldn’t you?