CRATER
A HELIUM-3 NOVEL, VOLUME 1
T
he adventure begins...
The little mining village of Moontown, set deep within the lunar Alpine Valley, was bathed in the bluish glow of a vast and sinuous river of stars flooding across a black velvet sky. On the Helium-3 scrapes to the west of the settlement, the miners of the Medaris Mining Company’s third shift trudged toward the dustlocks, their bobbing and weaving helmet lights shooting bright spokes across the gray dust, silicate flakes caught in the beams sparkling like diamonds...
CRESCENT
A HELIUM-3 NOVEL, VOLUME 2
A full tide of glittering stars and fluorescent galaxies washed across the darkness of eternity, the flood of heaven a welcome distraction to Crater Trueblood who lay in a crumbling ditch waiting to kill or be killed. Actually, it wasn’t a ditch at all but an ancient rile that had fallen inward between two faults in the moon’s crust, but the Colonel had called it a ditch and Crater supposed it didn’t matter much what it was called, considering it was just a place to hide before a battle began...
CRATER TRUEBLOOD AND THE LUNAR RESCUE COMPANY
A HELIUM-3 NOVEL, VOLUME 3
Beneath the vast Michael Collins dome in Armstrong City, Medaris Enterprises guards held back curious
pedestrians as Dr. Maria Medaris strode purposefully from her corporate headquarters building and into the back seat of a black limobug, her assistant Miss Torricelli settling in beside her. Maria was a glamorous celebrity, often appearing on lunar and earthian business shows as well as slick fashion putersites. She was also an executive who led companies that employed thousands of lunar settlers. It was said she had the golden touch when it came to business because every enterprise she commanded was profitable and growing. It was also said, this by the gossip mongers, that this raven-haired young woman was cold and aloof, for no recent suitor—among them the wealthiest and most eligible bachelors on the Earth and the moon—ever came close to winning her hand. There were also rumors of a lost love, a common Helium-3 miner who’d since disappeared somewhere in the wayback. But if he had ever existed, he’d been out of Maria Medaris’s life for years, and was therefore of no interest to the columnists and bloggers on the society pages of two worlds...
