The moon is above your horizon and in the sky where you live for roughly 12 hours 20 minutes out of every 24 hours. Mia, antoine, and midori had different reason to enter nasas competition for a seat on the first shuttle to go to the moon in over f 172 hours on the moon by johan harstad teen ink login. Buy 172 hours on the moon 9781907411519 by johan harstad. I was actually not aware that this is more of a horror novel until i was about halfway through it. No one is supposed to go back to the moon, he thinks. He just wanted to get as far away from paris as possible. Apr 17, 2012 172 hours on the moon by johan harstad is undoubtedly the best mysterythriller novel i have ever read. It never seemed to fully develop and i felt like part of the story was missing.
Take a closer look at the photographs and diagrams that appear throughout this novel. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read 172 hours on the moon. What the winners dont know is that their trip is a. Thr presents the first chapter in this new novel about a multinational teen trio who won a nasa lottery to go to the moon only to encounter. Jun 18, 2015 book trailer created by team 81 for the j. He has also written several novels for adults, including buzz aldrin, what happened to you in all the confusion. May 21, 20 172 hours on the moon is a book of two parts, let us talk about first, the not too creepy start of the book. Its been more than forty years since nasa sent the.
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To ask other readers questions about 172 hours on the moon, please sign up. Apr, 2012 first look at new ya scifi horror novel 172 hours on the moon exclusive. Moon thrills and planet palpitations crunchingsandmunchings august 22, 2012 at 5. Summary johan harstads novel, 172 hours on the moon, is a fictional horror story that will entertain and creep out most readers. Theres one thing to note though, i usually dont like scary books, but i loved this book. In 2019, teens mia, antoine, and midori are selected by lottery to join experienced astronauts on a nasa mission to the once topsecret moon base, darlah 2, while in a florida nursing home, a former astronaut struggles.
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Im afraid that my reading of 172 hours on the moon left me with that. Whats the word isb 7 172 hours on the moon by johan harstad. Apr 12, 2012 172 hours on the moon is a plotdriven, scifi thriller that i loved every second of. Buy this book norwegian author harstad makes his ya debut with. His exgirlfriend, simone, started dating another guy, and antoine couldnt handle it. Apr 17, 2012 172 hours on the moon ebook written by johan harstad. The author johan harstad skips around in the book as if his writing style is a kid and the book is the. The facts about space, the moon, and past space travel are real which allows you to invest fully in the story. This book starts off in the year 2019, nearly a decade after the last moon mission nasa sent.
Pdf 172 hours on the moon download full pdf book download. Jul 30, 2012 as everyone tunes in to watch the takeoff, we find oleg himmelfarb in front of the tv at his nursing home, trying to remember something as the footage of the moon plays. Johan harstads 172 hours on the moon, originally published in norwegian as darlah. The basic premise of the story is that nasa want to send a mission to the moon and, to reinvigorate interest in space travel, they hold a worldwide lottery which teenagers, aged between 14 and 18, can enter to be selected to go on the next mission, where they. They head to the moon, with them are a group of proper astronauts thankfully, well they arent just going to let a group of teenagers fly a rocket and on the moon is darlah 2, a moon base built in secret in the 70s, this is going to be their home for 172 hours. As everyone tunes in to watch the takeoff, we find oleg himmelfarb in front of the tv at his nursing home, trying to remember something as the footage of the moon plays. Johan harstad won the 2008 norwegian brage award in the young adultchildrens literature category for 172 hours on the moon. First look at new ya scifi horror novel 172 hours on the moon. Three teenagers are going on the trip of a lifetime. In 2019, teens mia, antoine, and midori are selected by lottery to join experienced astronauts on a nasa mission to the once topsecret moon base, darlah 2, while in a florida nursing home, a former astronaut struggles to warn someone of the terrible danger there. Read 172 hours on the moon by johan harstad available from rakuten kobo.
First look at new ya scifi horror novel 172 hours on the. It appears on darlah 2s computer screen and earlier its signal had been picked up by a giant radio. In 2010, eight men including the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff met to plan a return mission to the moon. And, well, it also has to do with a possible sequel to the novel. Johan harstad is the norwegian author of buzz aldrin, what happened to you in all the confusion. Nasa, for various reasons, has decided to go back to the moon but they need an excuse and a way to gin up public interest.
The story takes place in 2018, when a forgotten organization called nasa attempts to revive itself by holding a lottery to pick three random teenagers from anywhere in the world to accompany real astronauts on a fun trip to the moon. Whatever you do call it, 172 hours on the moon is bound to scare the crap out of you. In 2019, mia, antoine, and midori are selected by lottery to join astronauts on a nasa mission to the moon base, darlah 2, while. The book was originally published in norway on september 15, 2008 by cappelen damm, with an english language translation being published by little, brown in new york city on july 10, 2012. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. Now three ordinary teenagers, the winners of nasas unprecedented, worldwide lottery. This redirect is within the scope of wikiproject novels, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to novels, novellas, novelettes and short stories on wikipedia. The thrilling sequel to dove arising, featuring a brilliant new ya heroine in a world of true science fiction.
After obsessing over simone for weeks, he decided that he was going to go to the moon. America finally decides to return to the moon, but to get publicity nasa holds a worldwide lottery for three teenagers to accompany the astronauts. Okay, thats a pretty farfetched premise, but presumably readers are readily willing to suspend disbelief if the author presents the whole idea plausibly enough. Three ordinary teens won a trip to spend 172 hours on the moon at base darlah 2. The basis of the book is that nasa are going back to the moon, they have a hidden agenda but that agenda is disguised in the form of a lottery that chooses three people to. But once i started reading the book, i completely forgot. Listen to 172 hours on the moon by johan harstad available from rakuten kobo. Johan harstads novel, 172 hours on the moon, is a fictional horror story that will entertain and creep out most readers. The holdmeimshakingillneverlookattheuniversethesamewayagain type of frightening. What happens at the end of 172 hours of the moon answers.
Buy the paperback book 172 hours on the moon by johan harstad at indigo. Its been more than forty years since nasa sent the first men to the moon, and to grab some muchneeded funding and. This book starts off in the year 2019, nearly a decade after the last moon. National aeronautics and space administration, united states. Three teenagers join an expedition to the moon in 2019 and find horror there. Remote work advice from the largest allremote company. This imaginative norwegian sciencefiction novel places more emphasis on the fiction than on the science. We get the scoop from 172 hours on the moon author johan harstad, and. A 16 year old boy from france, antoine only wanted to go to the moon to escape his complicated relationship issues. But what i loved most about this book is its grounding in reality. According to the information, the three winners would spend 172 hours on the moon plus the trip from earth and back, which would take just over a week.
Every so often you come across a novel that you want to like but inevitably, you cant. They want to return to a secret base, darlah 2 built in the sea of tranquility from 1974 to 1976. Rights to darlah have also been sold to sixteen other countries. Johan harstad three teenagers are going on the trip of a lifetime. Now three ordinary teenagers, the winners of nasas unprecedented, worldwide lottery, are. The astronauts and the three teens become stuck on the moon with no power and no protection from the elements. Apr 17, 2012 moon thrills and planet palpitations crunchingsandmunchings august 22, 2012 at 5. They would stay at the darlah 2 moon base weird, hed never heard anything about a base being built on the moon, and he knew a few things about space travel, and from there they would. Stranded in 1955, marty mcfly learns about the death of doc brown in 1885 and must travel back in time to save him. I keep wondering if something was lost in the translation or if it was a culture. Brown is hoping for big things with its new ya scifi thriller 172 hours on the moon and the.
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