In celebration of the 50th anniversary from the Apollo 11 getting, the endlessly-mysterious moon is explored in this reprint short science fiction anthology from award-winning editor and anthologist Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld, The Best Science Fiction of the Year). On July 20, 1969, mankind produced what had only years earlier seemed like an impossible revolution: when Apollo 11 became the first manned mission to land for the moon, and Neil Armstrong the initial person to step foot on the lunar surface area..Read More approximately The Eagle Offers Landed: 50 Years of Lunar Science Fiction While there have just been a handful of brand-new missions since, the desire for our planet’s satellite continues, and generations of writers and artists possess imagined the limitless likelihood of lunar life. From ventures in the huge gulf of space between the earth and the moon, to journeys over the light face towards the dark aspect, towards the establishment of long term residences on its surface, science fiction has for decades provided readers daring and forward-thinking tips about our nearest interstellar neighbor and what it might mean to humankind, both right now and in our future. The Eagle Provides Landed collects the very best stories created in the fifty years since mankind 1st stepped foot over the lunar surface, serving like a glowing reminder that this moon is normally and always has been our most noticeable and constant example of all the infinite possibility of the wider universe. Table of Contents Launch Bagatelle by John Varley The Eve from the Last Apollo by Carter Scholz The Lunatics by Kim Stanley Robinson Griffin’s Egg by Michael Swanwick A Walk in the Sun by Geoffrey A. Landis Waging Good by Robert Reed HOW EXACTLY WE Shed the Moon by Paul McAuley People Came From Earth by Stephen Baxter Ashes and Tombstones by Brian Stableford Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl’s by Adam Troy Castro Stories for Guys by John Kessel The Clear Blue Seas of Luna by Gregory Benford YOU MIGHT Go directly to the Moon by William Preston SeniorSource by Kristine Kathryn Rusch The Overall economy of Vacuum by Sarah Thomas The Cassandra Project by Jack port McDevitt Fly Me towards the Moon by Marianne J. Dyson Tyche and the Ants by Hannu Rajaniemi The Moon Belongs to Everyone by Michael Alexander and K.C. Ball The Fifth Dragon by Ian McDonald Let Baser Factors Devise by Berrien C. Henderson The Moon isn’t a Battlefield by Indrapramit Das Every Hour of Light and Dark by Nancy Kress In Event of Moon Devastation by High Larson