TY  - SOUND
AU  - Bova,Ben
AU  - Rudnicki,Stefan
TI  - Farside
SN  - 9781470839000
U1  - 813/.54 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - [Ashland, Or.]
PB  - Blackstone Audio
KW  - Astronomical observatories
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Lunar bases
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Audiobooks
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Unabridged; Blackstone Audio: Z7212; Catalogued from container; Read by Stefan Rudnicki
N2  - Farside, the side of the moon that never faces Earth, is the ideal location for an astronomical observatory. It is also the setting for a tangled web of politics, personal ambition, love, jealousy, and murder. Telescopes on Earth have detected an Earth-sized planet circling a star some thirty light-years away. Farside observatory will have the largest optical telescope in the solar system as well as a vast array of radio antennas, the most sensitive radio telescope possible, insulated from the interference of Earth's radio chatter by a thousand kilometers of the moon's solid body. Building Farside is a complex, often dangerous task. Breakdowns -- mechanical and emotional -- are commonplace. Accidents happen, some of them fatal. But what they ultimately find will stun everyone, and the human race will never be the same
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