Kim Stanley Robinson Built A Moon Base In His Mind
It’s exacting in its detail and has already shown to be prescient: Since Red Moon was published in October 2018, the Chinese have announced a plan to build a base at the lunar south pole, right where Robinson placed their outpost in his book. He talked to IEEE Spectrum about the world he conjured in his work and what it might tell us about our lunar future, why you can’t colonize the moon for profit, what kind of tech will be necessary to get and stay there, and why the best spoils will go to China. Robinson: I was able to use a lot of what I had learned from my Mars books, which was good, because while I also read the current scientific literature on how we could set up a base on the moon, that’s not a huge body of work.
Source: spectrum.ieee.org