A review by zee
Earthlight by Arthur C. Clarke

slow-paced

3.5

Earthlight essentially boils down to a whodunnit novel that happens to take place on the moon. Sadler is responsible for investigating a possible leak, and must find who they are before Earth and its planetary colonies go to war (with strong flavours of the Cold War). This is far from Clarke's best work, and the spy/thriller portion lacked excitement. It's definitely a slow (but short) burn. There are no female characters, but the upside to that is there's also no weird mid-century sexism. It was fascinating to read his interpretation of the moon, as it was published well before the moon landing.