SCIENCE FICTION EDGED IN DARKNESS BY
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR,
EDWARD M. LERNER
On the Moon’s far side, shielded from Earth’s radio cacophony, Americans are building a radio-astronomy observatory. Russians sift the dust of a lunar “sea” for helium-3 to run future fusion reactors. Commercial robots, remotely operated from Earth, roam the Moon’s near side in a hunt for mineral wealth. Why chase distant asteroids for precious metals? Onetime asteroids must lie close beneath the much-bombarded lunar surface.
Then a prospecting robot encounters a desiccated, spacesuited figure. An alien figure ….
Americans from the lunar observatory investigate. Near the original find, underground, they discover an alien installation. Lunar Russians, realizing that the Americans are up to something clandestine, send their own small team. Each group distrusts the other … even before the fatal “accidents” begin. By the time anyone suspects what ancient evil they have awakened, it may be too late—
For everyone on Earth, too.
PRAISE FOR DÉJÀ DOOMED AND EDWARD M. LERNER:
“Solid sci-fi outing from Lerner”—Publishers Weekly
“Here’s an author you definitely need to check out.”—Asimov’s Science Fiction
“Irresistibly compelling. Edward M. Lerner has given us the ultimate archeological mystery.” —Jack McDevitt, Nebula Award-winning author of The Academy Series
“Well plotted, scientifically accurate, a story plausible and exciting—hard sf at it’s best.” —Gregory Benford, Nebula Award-author of Timescape