The Lotus Caves Author:John Christopher Seventy years have passed since men first came to the moon. Humans now live in a self-sufficient community enclosed in a transparent dome. Born in the Bubble, Marty and Steve have never known any other way of life, but they seize their first chance to explore the moonscape outside. As they drive their crawler over the moon'... more »s crust, far from the Bubble, they suddenly lose traction, tip over and fall free.
They regain consciousness only to find themselves trapped underground -- in the power of an insidiously solicitous interstellar superintelligence. Escape seems impossible. Even thinking about escape becomes increasingly difficult. « less