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    Crater: A Helium-3 Novel, Book 1

    Written by Homer Hickam

    Narrated by Adam Verner

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    A mining colony on the moon. A teen sent on a deadly mission. And a secret bigger than two worlds...

    It’s the 22nd Century. A tough, pioneering people mine the moon for Helium-3 to produce energy for a desperate, war-torn Earth. Sixteen-year old Crater Trueblood loves his job as a Helium-3 miner. But when he saves a fellow miner, his life changes forever.

    Impressed by his heroism, the owner of the mine orders Crater to undertake a dangerous mission. Crater doubts himself, but has no choice. He must go. With the help of Maria, the mine owner’s frustrating but gorgeous granddaughter, and his gillie - a sentient and sometimes insubordinate clump of slime mold cells - Crater must fight both human and subhuman enemies.

    He’ll battle his way across a thousand miles of deadly lunar terrain and face genetically altered super warriors in his quest to recover an astonishing object that will alter the lives of everyone on the moon.

    ©2012 Homer Hickam (P)2012 Oasis

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOasis Audio
    Release dateApr 10, 2012
    ISBN9781608149865
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    Crater: A Helium-3 Novel, Book 1
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    Homer Hickam

    Homer Hickam (also known as Homer H. Hickam, Jr.) is the bestselling and award-winning author of many books, including the #1 New York Times memoir Rocket Boys, which was adapted into the popular film October Sky. A writer since grade school, he is also a Vietnam veteran, a former coal miner, a scuba instructor, an avid amateur paleontologist, and a retired engineer. He lives in Alabama and the Virgin Islands.

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    • 4/5
      This novel is the first in a trilogy of books called the Helium-3 series. It is, I believe, written for a young adult audience. The novel takes place on the Moon in the 22nd century, and the Moon is being mined for a valuable ingredient needed on Earth to make energy. The Moon has a Wild West feel about it. Crater is the main character, a young boy of 16. While I enjoyed the action in the book, I probably would have enjoyed it more if I were younger and more a fan of science fiction. I appreciated the science that is in the book and the fact that it all seems very possible. For that reason, I hate to term the book "science fiction." Let's just call it a futuristic novel.
    • 2/5
      “Crater” by Homer Hickam is a science fiction book geared towards kids about a boy named Crater who is a miner on the moon. Crater is a naïve, but brilliant boy who lost his parents when he was a baby. He grows up on the moon under the care of Queen Bess (aka Q-Bess) along with her son Petro whom Crater considers a brother.Crater is soon tapped by the powerful owner of the mining settlement where Crater resides, Colonel Medaris of the Medaris Mining Company, to go to another settlement on the moon to pick up a mysterious package. Crater is joined by his best friend, Petro, and the Colonel’s granddaughter, Maria, on this journey.I was really excited to read this book when I read the description on the back. I was sad to be disappointed in it once I finished. The book starts off slow and the author sometimes runs a gag into the ground (i.e. the fact that gillie is illegal). We are following from the viewpoint of Crater, but the author will not let the reader in on some of the important things such as what is the package, why is it important. An example of this is when Maria tells Crater what is in the package, but doesn’t tell the reader what is in the package. Once I did find out what was in the package, I didn’t understand why it “wasn’t possible” that it was what it was. I didn’t understand why people were killing for it.