Beskrivning
Beskrivning
Living on the moonWhatever were we thinking? …It seems so silly now. Thelunarcolonyisslowlywindingdown,likeasmall towncircumventedbyanewsuperhighway.Asourhero, the Mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the population dwindles. A young girl runs away, a dog breaks off his leash, an automaton wanders off from the Museum of the Moon. Each day that the Mooncop goes to work, life gets a little quieter and a little lonelier.As in Goliath, Tom Gauld’s retelling of the Bible story, the focus in Gauld’s science fiction is personal-no big explo-sions or grand reveals, just the incremental dissolution of anabandonedprojectandaperson’sslowawakeningto hisownuselessness.Depictedinthedistinctive,matter-of-fact style of his beloved Guardian strips,Mooncop is equal parts funny and melancholy. Gauldcaptures essential truths about humanity, making this a story of the past, present, and future, all in one.
