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Chapters 4 and 5 - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer

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The Moon Landing - A Novel Review

This is the moon landing and it's a picture of an astronaut holding and planting a flag on the moon. We'll hear from Reudsen later in the chapter that yes, that was the moon back when it was a desert. And the moon is now green because they've planted trees on it. I believe it's indicated in that chapter too, or in this chapter as well, that it's been pulled closer to the earth. So the moon appears bigger and greener and more forested Because somehow there was some sort of Astroengineering where they managed to bring the orbit of the moon closer for whatever reason. Closer moon would mean bigger tides, right? Closer moon means bigger

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