{"id":3054,"date":"2025-10-18T08:49:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T16:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2025-10-18T08:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T16:53:20","slug":"isolation-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/18\/isolation-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Isolation on the Far Side of the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I present to you a dark tale suitable for this dark time of the year. Pink Floyd said it well when they warned, ominously, \u201cI\u2019ll see you on the dark side of the moon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have just re-released my short fiction, \u201cThe Treasure of Purgatory Crater\u201d after major revisions and addition of a large amount of new scenes, descriptions, and desperate circumstances. This time around, I\u2019ve included the option to listen to it as an audiobook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be forewarned: brace yourself from the get-go for a succession of creepy, dark scenes and situations, all set on the Far Side of the Moon, in the middle of its two-week-long period of nighttime blackness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not a ghost story. There\u2019s nothing supernatural about it. No, there\u2019s something far worse going on. And it\u2019s not a creature feature. No. It trades on something even more horrific\u2014human madness, greed, and murderousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For sheer terror, isolation, and darkness, this story surpasses even ALIEN. Remember the subtitle at the beginning of ALIEN? \u201cIn space, no one can hear you scream.\u201d The subtitle for this one ought to read, \u201cIn space, go ahead and scream all you want. No one is listening.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As is common in much of my storytelling, this is a tale of a male\/female pair of heroes beset by horrors but still discovering a spark of attraction that grows between them. Only in this case, their mutual concern for each other just adds a deeper chill to the horrors they encounter together\u2014or alone. Have you ever considered how claustrophobic a spacesuit can get to be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And finally, as with ALIEN, you may begin to wonder how there could possibly be a happy ending to such a terrifying tale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Give it a read, or a listen, and find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s a LINK<\/a> to a page where all the different sellers are listed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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