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eBook Category: Science Fiction Hugo Award Winner
eBook Description: A freelance technical writer notices that the moon is unusually bright. At first, he thinks it is some kind of atmospheric phenomenon, but soon he realizes he will be spending his last night alive. What should he do?

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Myriad Ways, Ballantine, 1971
Fictionwise Release Date: January 2001

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Words: 9046
Reading time: 25-36 min.
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Larry Niven writes with insight, brilliance and sensitivity. A lunar dazzler signals a cataclysmic end of the world. Lust for 'being' charms Stan and Leslie to one last dance: a wild jaunt in a stab at living. Just one more time... 'Inconstant Moon' is intelligent science fiction that builds effortless suspense to a gripping climax. Five stars. -Eugen Bacon, Fictionwise Recommender

I wrote science and how-to articles for a living. I ought to be able to figure out what was making the moon do that. Could the moon be suddenly larger?

...Inflating like a balloon? No. Closer, maybe. The moon, falling?

Tides! Waves fifty feet high ... and earthquakes! San Andreas Fault splitting apart like the Grand Canyon! Jump in my car, head for the hills ... no, too late already...

Nonsense. The moon was brighter, not bigger. I could see that. And what could possibly drop the moon on our heads like that?

I blinked, and the moon left an afterimage on my retinae. It was that bright.

A million people must be watching the moon right now, and wondering, like me. An article on the subject would sell big ... if I wrote it before anyone else did...

There must be some simple, obvious explanation.

Well, how could the moon grow brighter? Moonlight reflected sunlight. Could the sun have gotten brighter? It must have happened after sunset, then, or it would have been noticed....

I didn't like that idea.

Besides, half the Earth was in direct sunlight. A thousand correspondents for Life and Time and Newsweek and Associated Press would all be calling in from Europe, Asia, Africa ... unless they were all hiding in cellars. Or dead. Or voiceless, because the sun was blanketing everything with static, radio and phone systems and television ... television: Oh my God.