Growing Up Weightless

From one of science fiction's most eloquent voices, award-winning writer John M. Ford, comes an evocative novel of a lost generation of young people born on the face of the moon.

Matthias ROnay has grown up in the low gravity and great glass citadels of independent Luna — and in the considerable shadow of his father, a member of the council that governs Luna's increasingly complex society. But Matt feels weighed down on the world where he was born, where there is no more need for exploration, for innovation, for radical ideas, and where his every movement can be tracked by his father on the infonets.

Matt and five of his friends, equally brilliant and restless, have planned a secret adventure. They will trick the electronic sentinels, slip out of the city for a journey to Farside. Their passage into the expanses of perpetual night will change them in ways they never could have predicted . . . and bring Matt to the destiny he has yearned for.