We’d go down in history as one of the first families to live in space. The recruiters made everything sound so amazing: Moon Base Alpha would have all the comforts of earth-and more. The government fed my family all that baloney as well, back when they recruited my parents. Moon Base Alpha-along with everyone who lives on it-has been the subject of an absolutely staggering amount of hype: The first human outpost in space! The first people to live on a celestial body besides earth! A glorious first step in mankind’s ultimate colonization of the galaxy! Everyone on earth knows this, unless they’ve been living in the Amazon rain forest for the last few years, and since there’s barely anything left of the Amazon rain forest, I’m guessing that’s unlikely. I’m twelve years old and I live on the moon. Holodecks? Terraforming? Beaming up? Don’t count on any of it. Warp-speed travel? Never going to happen. Giant spacecraft that are as comfortable as floating cruise ships? Complete fantasy. Let’s get something straight, right off the bat: Everything the movies have ever taught you about space travel is garbage.
Holtz was on the verge of an important new discovery, Dash finds out, and it’s a secret that could change everything for the Moonies-a secret someone just might kill to keep. Holtz went onto the lunar surface without his helmet properly affixed, simple as that. Dash senses there’s foul play afoot, but no one believes him. Then Moon Base Alpha’s top scientist turns up dead.
Kids aren’t allowed on the lunar surface, meaning they’re trapped inside the tiny moon base with next to nothing to occupy their time-and the only other kid Dash’s age spends all his time hooked into virtual reality games. Like his fellow lunarnauts-otherwise known as Moonies-living on Moon Base Alpha, twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson is famous the world over for being one of the first humans to live on the moon.Īnd he’s bored out of his mind. It’s a murder mystery on the moon in this humorous and suspenseful space adventure from the author of Belly Up and Spy School that The New York Times Book Review called “a delightful and brilliantly constructed middle grade thriller.”
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