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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: When a lunar quake wakes Peter de Hooch, he discovers a reactor explosion has damaged the moon city. What's an engineer to do but buckle down and try to fix the problem? A classic tale selected by legendary editor John W. Campbell, Jr. for the August 1962 issue of ANALOG!

eBook Publisher: Wildside Press, Published: Analog, 1962
Fictionwise Release Date: December 2007

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Words: 7340
Reading time: 20-29 min.
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Peter de Hooch was dreaming that the moon had blown up when he awakened. The room was dark except for the glowing night-light near the door, and he sat up trying to separate the dream from reality. He focused his eyes on the glow-plate. What had wakened him? Something had, he was sure, but there didn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary now.

The explosion in his dream had seemed extraordinarily realistic. He could still remember vividly the vibration and the cr-r-r-ump! of the noise. But there was no sign of what might have caused the dream sequence.

Maybe something fell, he thought. He swung his legs off his bed and padded barefoot over to the light switch. He was so used to walking under the light lunar gravity that he was no longer conscious of it. He pressed the switch, and the room was suddenly flooded with light. He looked around.

Everything was in place, apparently. There was nothing on the floor that shouldn't be there. The books were all in their places in the bookshelf. The stuff on his desk seemed undisturbed.

The only thing that wasn't as it should be was the picture on the wall. It was a reproduction of a painting by Pieter de Hooch, which he had always liked, aside from the fact that he had been named after the seventeenth-century Dutch artist. The picture was slightly askew on the wall.