Moon Shot

Great Anthology Ruined by a few stories

This is a very spotty anthology. All of the stories are relatively well written, however some of them have such glaring scientific errors that it completely breaks the willing suspension of disbelief required for enjoyment of speculative fiction. I'll hit on a couple of the more egregious stories.

In the first story, "A Murder Far From Home", the author keeps orienting her characters as if they were in a gravity well. Otherwise, it was well written and the characters felt alive.

In "Mayhem on Mars" an otherwise engaging story was marred by a lack of understanding of both speed of light lag (conversations with Earth in real time) and physiology (the effects of imbalanced air supplies and the recovery time needed to get people back on their feet after suffering from these effects).

And, Finally, in "Moon Dust --In space no one can her you sneeze", the author doesn't seem to quite get that the moon has gravity and people don't just float away when ejected from an air lock.

The other stories in this anthology were all well written, properly researched and had no jarring scientific errors. Cudos to the authors if not to the anthology editor who should have caught the egregious errors in the above mentioned stories.