Red Moon — Craig Davidson

The Fall of the Soviet Union had brought great changes to the world of Yevazh Zoyzuba, a writer who benefited from the iron fist of Communism. Stuck without a means of continue, his profession, as he knows it, seems doomed.



Then one day he found the aged remnants of an abandoned story. A tale of his country's bold move into space, and their pioneering efforts into the field. Rediscovering its potential the author starts work on revitalising and remaking this lost work.



Thus begins the first segment of the creative process. The story he would weave, between himself, and a former Cosmonaut he had helped out, would showcase the world of the Soviet Manned Space Programme, from its origins in the rocket plants, to the landing of a Cosmonaut on the surface of the Moon. And how in the end, the Soviet drive would triumph even over the American effort.



But beyond the writing of a single story, and the initial triumph within, the darkness ahead, and an even greater tragedy, would all but begin...