CisLuna

by Ejner Fulsang

In Book II of the Galactican Series, SpaceCorp has established a cislunar colony at the Earth Moon Lagrange Point #1, 55,000 km from the surface of the Moon towards Earth. It consists of twelve Einstein-class space stations orbiting the Lagrange Point in a 60,000-km diameter Lissajous orbit. Each of these space stations carries a crew of around 300 officers, astronauts, and able spacemen, plus a contingent of 700 to 1000 scientists and engineers. CisLuna was a happy place, until a pretty young flight surgeon is discovered nude and hanging by her feet from the ceiling of her cabin. This being CisLuna’s first major crime, Detective Sergeant Roy Stone is immediately dispatched from Vandenberg up to CisLuna to put things right. The SSS Wm Borucki on the cover, beautifully rendered by master space artist Douglas Shrock, is named for the Principal Investigator of the Kepler Mission renowned for discovering over 2000 exoplanets.

Genres: Science Fiction

308 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 13, 2017

Reviews

[Don · Rating 4 out of 5]

A detective is sent to space stations orbiting the Moon to track down a serial killer across several space stations and the Moon. The technical details of space flight are correct and are used in the novel but don't get in the way of the story.

It is a nice continuation of the first book in the series and introduces a new main character.

The prose is good but the main character is the same at the end as the beginning. He has new experiences since this is his first trip to space, but it doesn't change him.
Read the book for the plot, not the characters.