By the end of the second story, several women were pregnant, including Doctor Helena Russell with Koenig as the father. They are there to set up a new colony on the Moon and the Alphans have to figure out how to deal with them. A queen, specialized drones, and a technology.

Moonbase Alpha is attacked by an alien race somewhat analygous to termites. The second story picks up four months later. That’s what sets the Moon on it’s course away from Earth. The main mass misses Earth, but the small one piles into the waste dumps of nuclear material on the Moon. Science officer Victor Bergman and his staff devise a plan to split the mass with nuclear weapons and hopefully avoid Earth. Also scanners picked up a mass headed toward the earth system and investigation found it to be antimatter. His replacement had extended dump sites and wasn’t exactly careful. It doesn’t take Koenig long to grasp the problem. Thirteen had died during that period and no one knew why. He’d been replaced two years before and his replacement hadn’t done a stellar job of command. Commander John Koenig is convinced to return to Moonbase Alpha. Each with their own ways, mores, and prejudices.īasically three stories, the first is a reworking of the pilot BREAKAWAY.

Five races and fifteen countries represented at the base. It addresses a number of factors that TV glossed over, explains a lot of stuff people have speculated about since the show first appeared. What it does is take the pilot episode and build a novel around it that a real science fiction author could take some pride in writing. EARTHFALL, published in 1977, never saw U.

Breakaway by E.C. Tubb