Lewis, Richard S.

In Appointment on the Moon, Richard S. Lewis traces the story of America's venture in space from its beginnings shortly after World War II, through the Mercury and Gemini projects, and on to the Apollo 11 flight which lifted man out of his terrestrial home and set him on the road to the stars. [from the front matter]

A collection of papers from data assembled by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the Antarctic Journal of the United States describing how Antarctica is being developed as a vast natural and political laboratory. Text of the Antaractic Treaty is included.

Follows a cast of dissolute Bohemians, political refugees, football referees, deaf police agents, assassins and stranded astronauts as they chase a stolen icon painting from Sofia to Prague and beyond. Set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of Communism.