It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the
far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with
Lunar Industries to mine Earth’s primary source of energy,
Helium-3. It is a lonely job, made harder by a broken
satellite that allows no live communications home. Taped
messages are all Sam can send and receive.
Thankfully, his
time on the moon is nearly over, and Sam will be reunited
with his wife, Tess, and their three-year-old daughter, Eve,
in only a few short weeks. Finally, he will leave the
isolation of “Sarang,” the moon base that has been his home
for so long, and he will finally have someone to talk to
beyond “Gerty,” the base’s well-intentioned, but rather
uncomplicated computer.
Suddenly, Sam’s health starts to deteriorate. Painful
headaches, hallucinations and a lack of focus lead to an
almost fatal accident on a routine drive on the moon in a
lunar rover. While recuperating back at the base (with no
memory of how he got there), Sam meets a younger, angrier
version of himself, who claims to be there to fulfill the
same three year contract Sam started all those years ago.
Confined with what appears to be a clone of his earlier
self, and with a “support crew” on its way to help put the
base back into productive order, Sam is fighting the clock
to discover what’s going on and where he fits into company
plans.
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