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lasamviela's review against another edition
3.0
It was a good read. If I had read it in the 60's i/o 2018 it had gotten 4 stars.
jokoloyo's review against another edition
4.0
I read this book a long long time ago, borrowed from library. This story has typical style of Mr. Clarke: pretty technical but not too tedious, man vs. nature (a.k.a. disaster theme). Maybe not so intense like modern day disaster movies/novels, but I enjoyed this uncommon slow pace disaster story. Slow, but not boring.
a fun trivia: what I can remember after all these years, the length of each chapter is similar. On my edition that I read, length of each chapter is around 8-9 pages.
a fun trivia: what I can remember after all these years, the length of each chapter is similar. On my edition that I read, length of each chapter is around 8-9 pages.
nimrodiel's review against another edition
5.0
This is one of those classic science fiction books that makes you think about man versus environment. I really enjoyed that this was a struggle for survival and the villain of the story is the moon's landscape. Now as this was written originally in 1961 and is set in the twenty-first century there was quite a bit of predictive speculation about our current time which is nothing like reality.
irinam's review against another edition
4.0
3,75/4
Alguses oli veidi aeglane, aga raamatu teine pool läks juba täitsa kiiresti. Võiks isegi veel midagi Clarke'ilt lugeda...
Alguses oli veidi aeglane, aga raamatu teine pool läks juba täitsa kiiresti. Võiks isegi veel midagi Clarke'ilt lugeda...
mburnamfink's review against another edition
4.0
Arthur C. Clarke is known for bone dry science fiction, so it's only appropriate that he takes us to the Sea of Thirst on the moon, a massive lake of lunar dust traversed by the tourist cruiser Selene. When a sudden burst of lunar activity buries Selene under 15 meters of dust, it's up the passengers and crew to survive until rescue by heroic scientists and engineers.
There's some psychological drama among the crew and passengers, as they deal with escalating threats from oxygen starvation to heat, but the star of the book are the escalating threats to the buried craft, and the repeated last minute rescues. If you like Clarke and hard scifi, you'll like this, but don't come for complex characters or thrilling action.
There's some psychological drama among the crew and passengers, as they deal with escalating threats from oxygen starvation to heat, but the star of the book are the escalating threats to the buried craft, and the repeated last minute rescues. If you like Clarke and hard scifi, you'll like this, but don't come for complex characters or thrilling action.
mw2k's review against another edition
3.0
Utilitarian Clarke. This one certainly falls within the "well-written but nothing special" category. It's a product of its era in most ways too. For Clarke completists only - if you're beginning your foray into his work, start with Rendezvous with Rama or Childhood's End.
azizthereadingrunner's review against another edition
5.0
“Humanity had swallowed them up once more, as the ocean swallows a rain-drop.” .
A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke was written in 1961, and it is a story of survival following a disaster. I’m going to be going in a bit of detail, if you choose to skip it, you can go ahead and jump to the end after the brackets.
[The Selene is a tourist ship that takes passengers(mostly rich, retired folks) on a Moon cruise. On one of the cruises, a natural disaster occurs on the moon (a Moonquake) and the Selene, along with it’s 22 passengers get swallowed up deep inside the Moon. While they struggle to survive, another story arch runs in parallel to these events, where a rescue team (lead by a badass with a certain motive) tries to look for them.]
The story was intense, and had me on the edge after each turn of the page! The author beautifully crafted this story, and is highly quotable throughout. I give this book 5/5, I HIGHLY recommend it!
A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke was written in 1961, and it is a story of survival following a disaster. I’m going to be going in a bit of detail, if you choose to skip it, you can go ahead and jump to the end after the brackets.
[The Selene is a tourist ship that takes passengers(mostly rich, retired folks) on a Moon cruise. On one of the cruises, a natural disaster occurs on the moon (a Moonquake) and the Selene, along with it’s 22 passengers get swallowed up deep inside the Moon. While they struggle to survive, another story arch runs in parallel to these events, where a rescue team (lead by a badass with a certain motive) tries to look for them.]
The story was intense, and had me on the edge after each turn of the page! The author beautifully crafted this story, and is highly quotable throughout. I give this book 5/5, I HIGHLY recommend it!
kylewestwriter's review against another edition
4.0
It's good to read old school sci-fi every now and then. It's kind of amusing to see how optimistic the authors were about how far we'd come by now, which was more of a product of their time. It was an interesting story, more about the plot and the science than the characters, which was fine.
the_prickly_reader's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
A bunch of ordinary people stuck in a tin can below the surface of the moon, battling one catastrophe after another, what is not to love? This is one of my favourite books and I can read it time and again, as indeed I have. So it seems a little dated? That is ok, after all it was written 53 years ago. If you ask me, it has stood the test of time pretty well. I read a review in which the reviewer considered it to be sexist – well, I don’t agree. Put it in the context of the time it was written, it is remarkably forward thinking. There may not be any female scientists in the story but I can live with that, there still aren’t as many as there should be in real life today. There are no aliens, monsters or zombies - just fine dust, trying to overcome them at every corner. Great fun.