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"Allen Steele is the best hard SF writer to come along in tl~-Ile last decade,"

-JOHN VARLEY

L, L I

ITRAN

ALLEN STEEL

Bestselling Author of The Jericho fterartion

I I'll.,11 'It 'It '1! 11

ISBN 0-441-00299-

>*21-95 U.S

(>*30-95 CAN

77iii"TEPNATIVE

ALLEN STEELE

Hailed as "a worthy successor to

Robert Heinlein" (The Washington Post)

bestselling author Allen Steele has

captivated science fiction readers with

his novels including The Jericho Iteration

and Labyrinth of Night. Now, this gifted

writer recasts a part of our history that is

as American as apple pie-the space

program-and gives this hallmark of

technological wonder a double-edged

vole, the powei loi both good and evil...

Tranquillity Base is a permanent moon

installation, civilian-manned and

devoted to peaceful scientific research.

Its dark side is Teal Falcon, a lunar

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nuclear base implemented during the

Truman and Eisenhower years, six missile

silos housing rockets poised to attack.

Now the Cold War is over. The U.S. space

program is a victim of politics, and

Tranquillity Base, long deserted, is

about to be sold to a foreign industrial

conglomerate. Leading the symbolic

mission to turn the base over to Its new

owners-and to dismantle the missiles-is

Commander Gene Parnell, a pioneering

astronaut who installed Tranquillity thirty

But the commander soon realizes that

someone on the mission has other plans

for Teal Falcon. Who is it? Who can

Parnell trust*7 Who should he fear?

The veteran astronaut is forced to play a

deadly game with the unknown terrorist.

The stakes: the future of Dianet Earth.

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T H E

Ace Books by Allen Steele

ORBITAL DECAY

CLARKE COUNTY, SPACE

LUNAR DESCENT

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LABYRINTH OF NIGHT

THE JERICHO ITERATION

RUDE ASTRONAUTS

THE TRANQUILLITY ALTERNATIVE

T H E

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ALLEN STEELE

ACE BOOKS, NEWYORK

This is a work of fiction. The events described are imaginary and the characters an

fictitious and not intended to represent specific living persons. When persons or enti

ties are referred to by their true names, they are portrayed in entirely fictitious cir

curnstances; the reader should not infer that these events ever actually happened.

Excerpt from Across the Space Frontier by Cornelius Ryan, copyright C 1952 b)

Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, 1980 renewed by Viking Penguin Inc. Used b)

permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.

Excerpt from You Will Go to the Moon by Mae and Ira Freeman, copyright 0 1959 by

Mae Freeman and Ira Freeman. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

THE TRANQUILLITY ALTERNATIVE

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An Ace Book

Published by The Berkley Publishing Group

200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 100 16

The Putnam Berkley World Wide Web site address is http://wwwberkleycom

Cover art by Bob Eggleton

Book design by Stanley S. Drate/Folio Graphics Co., Inc.

without permission,

First Edition: March 1996

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Steele, Allen M.

The tranquillity alternative / Allen M. Steele. - Ist ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-441-00299-4 (hardcover)

1. Title.

PS3569.T338425T73 1996

813'.54-dc2O

Printed in the United States of America

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 21

95-21056

CIP

In memory of Dot Hill

Icters are

s or enti-

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tiou,, cir-

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052 by

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ric.

The space station, with all its potentialities for exploration of the

universe, for all kinds of scientific progress, for the preservation of

peace or for the destruction of civilization, can be built. When the

decision has been reached and the funds have been appropriated, the

rest is only a matter of time. Many factors make the station inevita-

ble-not the least the insatiable curiosity that has sent man across

the oceans and finally into the air. Perhaps the military reasons for

building such a station are in the long run the least significant, but

in the existing state of the world they are the most urgent. Unless a

space station is established with the aim of preserving peace, it may

be created as an unparalleled agent of destruction-or there may not

be time to build it at all.

Under the impetus of their considerations, perhaps the space sta-

tion will become a reality, not a generation hence, but in-say-

1963.

-Wernher von Braun,

Across the Space Frontier (1952)

If we had a base on the moon, either the Soviets must launch an

overwhelming nuclear attack toward the moon from Russia two to

two-and-a-half days prior to attacking the continental U.S., or Rus-

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