Earthlight Volume 1 (Earthlight)

By Stuart Moore

Book Overview

The year: 2068. The place: Earthlight Lunar Colony, an international melting pot of scientific discovery and global tensions. Population: 228 adults - and 42 kids. Fifteen-year-old Damon Cole, who's just arrived on the moon, is one of the first students at the new Earthlight Academy. It's tough being the new kid - but it's even worse when your mother is your teacher. And when your father is Chief Administrator of the entire colony, that's really asking for it. Damon just wants to kick back and fit in. But soon he's drawn into the life of a pretty girl named Lise, and her abusive boyfriend. Can he avoid being drawn into a deadly fistfight at the top of the lunar dome? And if so, will he be ready for the terror that's coming - from the adult world?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598167057
• ISBN13: 9781598167054
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Tokyopop Classics
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 7.3"
• Age Range: 12 to 1 year
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 1

Customer Reviews

It's about Time!

This book takes Japanese manga where it needs to go with direct involvement of various cultures. I have been a fan of Japanese animation for almost two decades, and this book represents the cutting edge of the industry with a universal and coherent storyline, 5 Stars. Keep up the good work! I am also looking forward to volume 2!

SF manga with American grit

I adore Japanese manga and Japanese culture. But their culture isn't ours. Earthlight manages to catch the best of both. The lunar Earthlight colony is a multinational melting pot - 54 squabbling, troubled nations funded it, and sent some lucky few to live up there. The parents are busy 24/7, the kids ... are kids. Smart independent teens, but realistically written - they have problems beyond their ability to solve. The lunar environment is harsh, the cost of mistakes catastrophic. And worst of all punishments - the threat of being sent back to live on Earth, where life has gotten more and more difficult as the years have gone by. This first volume started a little slow, in that the main human character hadn't arrived yet - we start out by meeting the environment, almost a character in itself. But then we get to the human characters, too, and it ended with a bang! I'm really looking forward to volume 2!