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Crater, a teenaged Helium-3 miner living in the twenty-second century, aspires to become a foreman, but leaves home and embarks on a dangerous journey into deep space in search of treasure.

Crater Trueblood, doubting the justice of the war he fights and the evil of enemies he was trained to hate, brings Crescent, an apparently female Crowhopper, to Moontown as his prisoner but soon both are fugitives, fleeing prejudice and cruelty in hostile territory.

Rocket engineer Jack Medaris, having failed in his attempt to build a machine that would travel to the moon and collect an isotope desperately needed to produce energy on Earth, and hoping to redeem himself for what he sees as a personal failure, highjacks the space shuttle Columbia and heads for the lunar surface.

Rocket engineer Jack Medaris, having failed in his attempt to build a machine that would travel to the moon and collect an isotope desperately needed to produce energy on Earth, and hoping to redeem himself for what he sees as a personal failure, highjacks the space shuttle Columbia and heads for the lunar surface.