 First edition cover | |
| Author | Donald Kingsbury |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | David B. Mattingly |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Baen Books |
Publication date | December 1, 1986 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
| Pages | 409 |
| ISBN | 0-671-55958-3 (hc) |
| OCLC | 11532199 |
| 813/.54 19 | |
| LC Class | PS3561.I487 M66 1986 |
The Moon Goddess and the Son is a science fiction novel by American writer Donald Kingsbury, published by Baen in 1986. The novel was an expanded version of a novella published in the December 1979 issue of Analog magazine, which was a nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1980.
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Along with the novella, Kingsbury and Roger Arnold published a nonfiction article describing the technologies used in the story for achieving cheap access to Low Earth orbit and beyond. [1] [2] Their LEOport station allows suborbital IMP vehicles to pop up and align themselves with a 100 km long deceleration track. The station vents gas into the airscoop of an 'impact reaction engine', which uses inverted aerobraking to match speed with the station. [3]
