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Introduction to "The Great Moon Hoax"

This one you can blame on Norman Spinrad.

Norm is one of the best writers in the science fiction field, and a man who combines deep intelligence with a droll sense of humor.

In 1992 Norm invited me to contribute to an anthology he was putting together, Down in Flames. In his own words, the basic idea of the anthology was to "satirize, destroy, take the piss out of, overturn the basic premises of   . . . your own universe." In other words, Norm wanted a story that would be the antithesis of my usual carefully-researched, scientifically-accurate fiction.

Norm's anthology never came to fruition, but I took his challenge and decided to write a story "explains" just about everything from NASA's dullness to UFOs to—well, read it and see.

 

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