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A new metaphorical take on good versus evil set in outer space that is filled with thought provoking religious allegory.


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1 author picked The Other Side of the Moon as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

It's a children's book, written for a world which we now know doesn't exist, with fully developed societies - a kingdom, and a highly technological but humanly dead underground world - and makes the agonizing choices necessary to get an exploring team from Earth home without endangering the fragile world.

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