A strange object has crashed landed on the Moon… In an underground hall, gouged out of the lunar rock, the scientists at Moonbase One have created a miniature section of Earth. A home away from home for the scientists and workers living on the Lunar planet. Commander Mark Regan watches carefully over his people, maintaining a good rhythm within their new ecosystem. However, when a strange object from outer space shows up on their scans, it threatens to destroy the whole base and their hard won way of life. The object is heading towards the moon on a collision course. Commander Regan is pushed into action. Should he take offensive action? Persuaded by the scientists not to destroy it, he fires a missle to nudge it off course, causing it to land several miles from the base. But the question what is it? The potential ship-craft lies in a nearby crater. Its harder-than-diamond coating, strange structural composition and surrounding gossamer-like substance promise wonder – but to Commander Regan, he can’t shake the feeling of unease. Soon, both Regan and his team of scientists make a discovery that they had never anticipated. Soon, their very way of life on the Moon will be torn to pieces… Like one of Bradbury's Martian Chronicles, if set instead upon the moon, Child of Space is a classic science fiction novel from renowned and prolific author E. C. Tubb. “His reputation for fast-moving and colourful SF writing is unmatched by anyone in Britain.” - Michael Moorcock Edwin Charles Tubb was a British writer of science fiction, fantasy and western novels. The author of over 140 novels and 230 short stories and novellas, Tubb is best known for The Dumarest Saga (US collective Dumarest of Terra ) an epic science-fiction saga set in the far future. He has used 58 pen names over five decades. Edwin died in 2010.