A very good science fiction novel written with great technical knowledge of science and space. The science seems to override the characters in the book.
Present time on earth and the moon suddenly is gone. In its place is a large cloud of rocks and dust. A TV science presenter realizes that soon all those rocks will be falling on Earth, and life as we know it will cease to exist.
Governments get together to formulate a plan There is very limited time. A habitat will be built to be put up in space attached to the space station already orbiting the earth. A few thousand young pioneers, chosen from each country and with technical personnel to support them will be sent there as soon as possible.Genetic materials will also be stored in the habitat to generate future people. After unknown generations, the Earth will become livable again and the descendants of the pioneers will return.
That is the first part of the book. The second part deals with the complex resettling of the extended habitat with the survivors on the largest part of the old moon rock and the resettling of the people back to earth.
It is a very large and complicated read, full of clever and inventive technical ideas but it is difficult to understand in places. I wish the characters had been more developed to make it more interesting for the average reader.
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