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# Adrift on the Sea of Rains: Volume 1 (Apollo Quartet) Paperback – 15 Dec. 2014

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## Customer Reviews

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    An Excellent, Exciting Piece of Science Fiction
  

*by T***M on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 August 2013*

To start with this is not the normal type of book that I would choose to read, and it is not a full length, rather a novella.Set in an alternative time line where the world suffered a third world war in the 1980′s and has been shattered by nuclear armageddon. The only known survivors are a group of US astronauts living on the moon, isolated and alone they face a rather bleak future, with only a faint hope in the form of a device recovered from the Nazi's at the end of World War IIThe above might make the book seem to be some Science Fantasy romp, but it is not, probably one of the most `hard' Science Fiction books I have read, where in many ways the emphasis is on the science. It is easy to believe that the lunar base is real, that spaceflight is real because the information we are supplied with, the description and science feels real. It is obvious that Sales knows his stuff and his research is in depth and encompassing. I would imagine it would have easy to hit the reader again and again with in a lot more detail, but he has in fact hit the balance just right. Not too much, rather just enough to give the feeling that what is being read could be real.Even the more fantastical elements of the story, in this instance The Bell are things that have been drawn from reality, or at least reported in reality. The space-station that appears towards the end of the story really existed. The technology is real. So there is that feeling that this really is an alternative universe, somewhere close to our own, where the Moon program continued well beyond  where it did in our own.Unfortunately, as stated that is not the only change, and nuclear war happened too. And this plays a major part in narrative, as the main story is interspersed with `flashback' sequences, each one a little further back in time, featuring the principal character, ending with a little twist where we find the moment where our realities diverge.It is highly entertaining reading, easily capturing the depression and near despair of the men trapped on the moon, and delivering opposing emotional responses as the story continues, while giving an ending that will make you want to throw the book across the room - in a good way.In all, well written, a good story, and it made me keep reading even though it is not my normal fare? What more can I say?

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    A stretch too far
  

*by P***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 August 2014*

This is a relatively easy read, and is quite short, not bad to occupy some time without requiring too much thought. There is a fair amount of technical jargon, to the extent that a glossary is included, though that didn't detract from the narrative for me, though I'm one of those geeky people who lived through the Apollo programme as a schoolboy and soaked this all up back then - it may be offputting to someone new to this. It's really an Apollo 'fan-fiction' novel of an alternative future timeline when the programme wasn't cancelled, when there was a 3rd World War, and there was some incredible Nazi technology to give the few remaining survivors hope. Personally I think the stretch is too big to accept when it comes to 'secret Nazi technology', and jarred with the otherwise meticulous attention to technical detail. If Dr Who had come strolling across the moon with sonic screwdriver in hand I wouldn't have been surprised.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Good novella but with too much technical language
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 March 2016*

Ian Shales's  The Apollo Quartet is 4 novellas of alternate history. At the centre of each one is the continuaion of the Apollo program beyond the early '70's and what would have happened if the space program has continued.It's a fascinating concept and the first novella is an original and good story with a shocking end. It is written from the perspective of an apollo astronaut who together with his colegues are stranded on the moon after a catastrophic nuclear war on earth and try to go to another universe where human civilization still exists. Btu he's also a classic case of a cold war fanatic who even after the catastrophe he witnessed can't put aside his cold war hatred.This would have been a 4 stars review  but unfortunatelly the author fills the story with so much technical detail that it makes it dificuld to read. I understand that he wanted his story to be scientificall correct but he overdone it.

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