Moon Base One

Moon Base One
	First edition cover shows Chris Godfrey with friends Serge, Morrey and Tony in mysterious grey mist
Author	Hugh Walters
Cover artist	Leslie Wood
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A
Genre	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Faber
Publication date	1960
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	192
Preceded by	Operation Columbus
Followed by	Expedition Venus

Moon Base One is a young adult science fiction novel, the fourth in Hugh Walters' Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series. It was published in the UK by Faber in 1960, in the US by Criterion Books in 1962 under the title Outpost on the Moon.

Plot summary[]

Thousands of young people are terminally ill as a result of the radiation produced by the lunar structures destroyed in The Domes of Pico. In an attempt to determine whether the fall-out from the domes can have a curative effect on the disease a joint east–west mission is planned under the auspices of the newly formed United Nations EXploration Agency (UNEXA).

The mission is commanded by Chris Godfrey, accompanied by American, Morrison 'Morrey' Kant and Russian Serge Smyslov. The 'patient' will be Tony Hale, from Aston near Birmingham (who goes on to feature in the rest of the series). The mission starts well, but is soon in trouble when a supply rocket crashes...

External links[]

Moon Base One page
Moon Base One title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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