Author: Jack McDevitt

An asteroid is going to hit the moon...will it destroy it? break it up into pieces that fall to Earth? Right away I'm hooked on the premise because the idea of the moon breaking up or getting destroyed is huge in disaster terms. And of course the asteroid coming out of nowhere is an all-time disaster fave.

The story focuses on a number of characters, but mostly on the vice-president who is at the lunar base when all this goes down. This isn't stellar writing, but it's decent enough that I have actually read this book twice. The descriptions of the moon base and the space station, in terms of physical characteristics and what they'd be like to live in, were excellent.

There was some stupid stuff--like why do so many disaster books have to have some militia group/terrorist group mucking up the works in the aftermath of the disaster itself? This happens a lot in disaster books, and in this one it just seemed a kind of add-on that didn't really help the book much.

All in all I liked it fairly well. Not a classic but a nice read.