To Crush the Moon: Volume 3

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CONCLUSION TO THE GROUNDBREAKING QUEENDOM OF SOL SERIES

Once the Queendom of Sol was a glowing monument to humankinds loftiest dreams. Ageless and immortal, its citizens lived in peaceful splendor. But as Sol buckled under the swell of an "immorbid" population, space itself literally ran out. . . .

Conrad Mursk has returned to Sol on the crippled starship Newhope. His crew are the frozen refugees of a failed colony at Barnards Star. A thousand years older, Mursk finds Sol on the brink of rebellion, while a fanatic necro cult is reviving death itself. Now Mursk and his lover, Captain Xiomara Xmary Li Weng, are sent on a final, desperate mission by King Bruno de Towajione of the greatest terraformers of the agesto literally crush the moon. If they succeed, theyll save billions of lost souls. If they fail, theyll strand humanity between death and something unimaginably worse. . . .

About Wil McCarthy:
McCarthy is an entertaining, intelligent, amusing writer, with Heinlein's knack for breakneck plotting and, at the same time, Clarke's thoughtfulness.Booklist

Imagination really is the only limit.The New York Times

The future as McCarthy sees it is a wondrous place.Publishers Weekly

Abright light on the SF horizon.David Brin

Wil McCarthy demonstrates that he has a sharp intelligence, a galaxy-spanning imagination, and the solid scientific background to make it all work.Connie Willis

In nearly every passage, we get another slice of the science of McCarthys construction, and a deeper sense of danger and foreboding . . . McCarthy develops considerable tension.San Diego Union-Tribune

An ingenious yarn with challenging ideas, well-handled technical details, and plenty of twists and turns.Kirkus

Author Bio

Engineer/novelist/journalist/entrepreneur WilMcCarthy is a former contributing editor forWIREDmagazine and science columnist for the SyFychannel. A lifetime member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, he has been nominated for the Nebula, Locus, Seiun, AnLab, Colorado Book, Theodore Sturgeon, and Philip K. Dick awards. His short fiction has graced the pages of Analog, Asimovs, WIRED, and SF Age, and his novels include the New York Times Notable Bloom, Amazon.com Best of Y2K The Collapsium(a national bestseller), To Crush the Moon, and Antediluvian. He has also written for TV, appeared on The History Channel and The Science Channel, and published nonfiction in half a dozen magazines.

Previously a flight controller for Lockheed Martin Space Launch Systems and later an engineering manager for OmnitechRobotics and founder/president/CTO of Raven Brick LLC, McCarthy hold patents of his own in seven countries, including twenty-nine issued U.S. patents in thefield of nanostructuredoptical materials.