Opening book details…
Can I read Rogue Moon on EtoBox?
Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Rogue Moon about?
Rogue Moon is a short sf novel by Algis Budrys, published in 1960. It was a 1961 Hugo Award nominee, losing to Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. A novella-length version of the story was included in the anthology The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 2, edited by Ben Bova. Before 1969, every science fiction writer wrote his or her own version of the first Moon landing. Few carry the horror of Budrys' unsettling story. During all recorded history, the Moon has hovered above our heads, a timeless symbol for lovers' ecstasy. Goddesses & Gibson Girls have tripped the light fantastic of her beams while sonneteers & scientists have scanned her changing phases. Now humans had actually reached the Moon, & on it the explorers found a structure, a formation so terrible & incomprehensible that it couldn't even be described in human terms. It was a thing that devoured people; that killed them again & again in torturous, unfathomable ways. Earthbound are the only two men who could probe the thing: Al Barker, a homicidal maniac, whose loving mistress was death, & Dr. Edward Hawks, a scientific murderer, whose greatest mission was rebirth.
Who reads Rogue Moon?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Algis Budrys
- Publisher
- Avon
- Published
- 1959
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780449014745
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Science Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.59 / 5 (1,705 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
More by Algis Budrys
Browse all works by Algis Budrys
Similar books
- A Canticle for Leibowitz — Walter M. Miller Jr. (2011)
- Visions of Tomorrow: Six Journeys from Outer to Inner Space (Science Fiction) — David N. Samuelson (1975)
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress — Robert A Heinlein; Bob Eggleton; Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania) (1997)
- The Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Volume Two B : the Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction Writers of America — Ben Bova, Isaac Asimov, James Blish, Algis Budrys, Theodore Cogswell, E. M. Forster, Frederik Pohl, James H. Schmitz, T. L. Sherred, Wilmar H. Shiras, Clifford D. Simak, Jack Vance, (1973)
- Rogue Ship — A. E. van Vogt (1965)
- Dark Benediction — Walter M. Miller