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02244aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 D6BBA6BAC93011E88539171297128E48 003 SILO 005 20181006010511 008 131203r20142013nyu 000 f eng d 020 $a 0765363593 020 $a 9780765363596 035 $a (OCoLC)870311279 040 $a CNNOR $b eng $e rda $c CNNOR $d ZS3 $d YDXCP $d BDX $d DUNPL $d OCLCA $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UIB $d SILO 050 14 $a PS3552.O84 $b F37 2014 082 04 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Bova, Ben, $d 1932- 245 10 $a Farside / $c Ben Bova. 250 $a First mass market edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Tor, $c 2014. 300 $a 367 pages ; $c 18 cm 500 $a "A Tom Doherty Associates book." 520 $a Farside, the side of the Moon that never faces Earth, is the ideal location for an astronomical observatory. It is also the setting for a tangled web of politics, personal ambition, love, jealousy, and murder. Telescopes on Earth have detected an Earth-sized planet circling a star some thirty light-years away. Now the race is on to get pictures of that distant world, photographs and spectra that will show whether or not the planet is truly like Earth, and if it bears life. Farside will include the largest optical telescope in the solar system as well as a vast array of radio antennas, the most sensitive radio telescope possible, insulated from the interference of Earth's radio chatter by a thousand kilometers of the Moon's solid body. Building the Farside observatory is a complex, often dangerous task. On the airless surface of the Moon, under constant bombardment of hard radiation and infalling micrometeoroids, builders must work in cumbersome spacesuits and use robotic machines as much as possible. Breakdowns--mechanical and emotional--are commonplace. Accidents happen, some of them fatal. What they find stuns everyone, and the human race will never be the same. 650 0 $a Astronomical observatories $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Lunar bases $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Sabotage $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Moon $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Science fiction. $2 gsafd 941 $a 1 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006112007.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D6BBA6BAC93011E88539171297128E48 994 $a C0 $b UIBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search