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how we lost the moon,
a true story by frank w. allen
PAUL J. McAULEY

Born in Stroud, England, in 1955, Paul J. McAuley now makes his home
in London. A professional biologist for many years, he sold his first story
in 1984, and has gone on to he a frequent contributor to Interzone, as
well as to markets such as Amazing, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science
Fiction, AsimovтАЩs Science Fiction, When the MusicтАЩs Over, and
else-where.

McAuley has a foot in several different camps of science fiction
writing, being considered one of the best of the new breed of British
writers (although a few Australian writers could be fit in under this
heading as well) who are producing that brand of rigorous hard science
fiction with updated modern and stylistic sensibilities that is sometimes
referred to as тАЬradical hard sci-ence fiction,тАЭ in addition to being one of
the major young writers who are producing that revamped and retooled
widescreen Space Opera that has sometimes been called the New
Baroque Space Opera. But, something of a literary millipede, McAuley
refuses to be limited to a mere two camps in which to put his feet, and
also writes Dystopian sociological speculations about the very near
future, some elegant and literate Alternate History, and even some
unabashed fantasy and supernatural horror stories, all with equal fluency
and skill. His first novel, Four Hundred Billion Stars, won the Philip K. Dick
Award. His other books include the novels Of the Fall, Eternal Light, and
PasqualeтАЩs Angel; two collections of his short work, The King of the Hill
and Other Stories and The Invisible Country; and an original anthology
co-edited with Kim Newman, In Dreams. His acclaimed novel Fairyland
won both the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the John W. Campbell Award
in 1996. His most recent books are Child of the River and Ancients of
Days, the first two volumes of a major new trilogy of ambitious scope and
scale, Confluence, set ten million years in the future. The third book in
the trilogy, Shrine of Stars, is due out soon. Currently he is working on a
new novel, The Secret of Life. His stories have appeared in our Fifth,
Ninth, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Annual Collec-tions. His web
site is at http://www.omegacom.demon.co.uk.

On the busy, bustling, colonized future Moon, McAuley reminds us
that although everyone makes mistakes, some mistakes have far greater
consequences than others...

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Iprobably think that you know everything about it. After all, here we are,
barely into the second quarter of the first century of the Third Millennium,
and itтАЩs being touted as the biggest event in the history of humanity. Yeah,