Shoot the Moon
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Penguin Publishing Group · Ebook · October 10, 2023
How far would you travel for love?
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- Who it’s for
- A time-spanning story brings scientific ambition into conversation with love and loss.
- Genres
- Sci-Fi Romance, Historical Fiction, Multiple-Timeline Fiction
- Published
- Penguin Publishing Group, October 10, 2023
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How far would you travel for love? Intelligent but isolated recent physics graduate Annie Fisk feels an undeniable pull toward space. Her childhood memories dimmed by loss, she has left behind her home, her family, and her first love in pursuit of intellectual fulfillment. When she finally lands a job as a NASA secretary during the Apollo 11 mission, the work is everything she dreamed, and while she feels a budding attraction to one of the engineers, she can’t get distracted.
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Not now. When her inability to ignore mistaken calculations propels her into a new position, Annie finds herself torn between her ambition, her heart, and a mysterious discovery that upends everything she knows to be scientifically true. Can she overcome her doubts and reach beyond the limits of time and space? Affecting, immersive, and kaleidoscopic, Shoot the Moon tells the story of one singular life at multiple points in time, one woman's quest to honor both her head and her heart amid the human toll of scientific progress.
Head and Heart
A time-spanning story brings scientific ambition into conversation with love and loss.
Come here for
- Apollo-era science alongside a woman's professional ambition
- Romance threaded through questions of time, loss, and scientific certainty
Expect
- One life unfolding at multiple points in time
- Intellectual pursuit held alongside matters of the heart
Where it sits
| Multiple-Timeline Fiction | 42% |
|---|---|
| Historical Fiction | 28% |
| Sci-Fi Romance | 26% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Historical Fiction
- Bisexual Fiction
- Multiple-Timeline Fiction
- Authors
- Isa Arsén
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- October 10, 2023
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Historical Fiction