Week­ly Moon Dis­patch – Week of Octo­ber 31, 2026

Do you need more Moon joy this week?

The Moon is wan­ing gib­bous as seen from Earth.

The long lunar day con­tin­ues at Con­rad Sta­tion. Hard gold­en light stretch­es across the regolith. Short shad­ows pool around the habi­tats and crawler tracks. Sys­tems remain under full solar load, yet the old pres­sures — water, pow­er mar­gins, and the three-day lag — have not eased.

This is hard sci­ence fic­tion lunar fron­tier ter­ri­to­ry: thin mar­gins, three-day lags, and peo­ple try­ing to stay human while the vac­u­um waits outside.

Looking Back – Recent Posts

• Fron­tier Foun­da­tions – Cold Traps & Out­gassing → Read the post
• Char­ac­ter Spot­light – Mose → Read the post
• Hard Tech & Sci­ence – Eight Min­utes → Read the post

Coming This Week

• Mon­day – Life on the Fron­tier: For Drinks Tonight – Alex takes a cut of the tips. Nils drinks on the house. The hotel vis­i­tors are the ones who have not heard the sto­ries yet.
• Tues­day – Lore & Secrets: Put the Lunokhod Back – Del does not arrest Coot­er for tak­ing the Lunokhod off its his­tor­i­cal site. He tells him to put it back. Last cen­tu­ry or not, Del says it still belongs to the Russians.
• Wednes­day – Fab­u­lae Lunae Vignette: Fab­u­lae Lunae Vignette — Decisions

Thunder Moon Tussle

Even Alex seems bored with the game.

Recommended Reading Order

• The Luna­dyne Inci­dent → https://www.amazon.com/Lunadyne-Incident-Other-Stories-Fabulae-ebook/dp/B0D5F7L3QS
• Thun­der Moon Tus­sle → https://www.amazon.com/Thunder-Moon-Tussle-Torn-MacAlester-ebook/dp/B095BXX6YC
• Mask of the Joy­ful Moon → https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G16F7MQW

All three books remain available:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G16F7MQW

The Joy­ful Moon is still watch­ing… and the day continues.

— Torn MacAlester Still rid­ing the trails with Nils, Gen, and the whole Fab­u­lae Lunae crew 🚀🌕

Stories The sto­ries of Torn MacAlester are sci­ence fic­tion, where the sci­ence is well-ground­ed. I inten­tion­al­ly made any devi­a­tions for spec­u­la­tive pur­pos­es. To main­tain max­i­mum real­ism, I restrict the scope of these deviations. Read More

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