As I'm not a fan of apocalyptic or unwieldy descriptive stories unless extremely well written. Most of the stories contained in this anthology I would rate good to excellent with the exception of After a Judgement Day or Sunrise on the Moon. Clarke stories which I thoroughly enjoyed reading again. The ones I had read before were the HG Wells & Arthur C. And there will be those stories where you ask yourself "why did they include this story in this anthology - it just doesn't meet the grade." Followed by some readers saying well "I've read some of these before. Like all anthologies you will always find those stories where you find your self saying "how on earth haven't I come across that story before" and will enjoy reading it again if it ever crops up in another anthology with the same amount of pleasure. There is an enthusiastic & well researched 23 page introduction by Mike Ashley on the development of moon based sci-fi and at the rear of the book is a source list of where each story was first published - which is excellent news for collectors and Sci-fi buffs. Very interesting collection of moon/lunar short stories many of which have been forgotten or overlooked by Sci-Fi readers over the years but have now been republished by The British Library Group (I will list the stories below).
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