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Luna-1, 2126

1. MOONFALL


Calvin Spinker hated the Moon. Hated it. Hated, hated,
mother-drokking, spugging, snecking hated the big airless ball of dirt with
every fibre of his being. He hated the way that you'd bounce like a low-rent
Boing freak if you forgot to wear gravity boots or stepped clear of a street
with g-plates. He hated the stupid mock seasons they had inside the
Luna-1 domes, with synthi-snow, sprinkler rains and holographic
rainbows. He hated how every damn thing imported from Earthside cost
ten per cent more than the drab local produce, and some days he swore
he'd wreck the next servo-bot that offered him a "Moon Pie" at the
Eat-O-Mat.

But above all, the thing Calvin Spinker hated the most about the Moon
was the air.

It had this sickly smell to it, see, this kinda plastic tang that reminded
him a little bit of burning insulation or melting plasteen. It was
everywhere. He couldn't take a breath without the stink being right there
in his nostrils. He'd tried nose filters, strong cologne, even breathing
through his mouth for weeks on end, but nothing could make the smell go
away. If Calvin thought hard enough about it, he would start to feel sick.
He knew that out there in the airless wilderness of the lunar plains there
were domes half-buried in moondust where the stale, used breath from
millions of Luna-cit lungs was being sucked in and reprocessed. Then they