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The Moon Destroyers

Monroe K. Ruch

The Moon Destroyers

The Moon Destroyers

Monroe K. Ruch

Adventure, Novels, Science-Fiction & Fantasy

What if the Moon itself was causing earthquakes, and the only solution was to destroy it? In this audacious 1930s science fiction adventure, New York lies in ruins from a catastrophic quake, and scientists trace the disaster to lunar gravitational pull. Professor Erickson and his assistant Jack Holden assemble a desperate crew to journey into space with a radical plan: vaporize the Moon using bombs made of hexoxen, a fictional super-explosive. The mission descends into chaos: midnight attacks, treacherous space pirates who hold Jack's long-lost love Jean captive, and near-fatal repairs adrift in the void. When they finally land on the lunar surface, the fate of Earth rests on their能不能 execute their impossible plan. The Moon Destroyers is pure pulp spectacle, a story that treats cosmic annihilation as an engineering problem and throws in a romance worth rescuing from the stars. It captures a glorious era when science still seemed like it could solve anything, even if the solution involved blowing up our nearest celestial neighbor.

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