Horse Tales from the Moon
Some of the most important moments in history are never written down.
By 2170, the use of horses on the Moon had already become one of Lunar Colony 3’s most unusual success stories. What began as an improvised engineering solution quietly reshaped how construction and exploration were carried out beyond Earth.
But the official reports only told part of the story.
A few years later, Alicia Kollins has returned to Earth and taken a position teaching at her university. Her work on Lunar Colony 3—and the controversial decision to introduce horses to the Moon—has already become part of engineering history.
When a sportswriter asks her for a simple interview about how the horses were trained for lunar conditions, he gets far more than what he bargained for. Alicia finds herself remembering the moments no one ever documented: the strange, difficult, and sometimes humorous events that happened during the earliest days of the lunar horse program; the challenges of adapting animals to one-sixth gravity; the rapidly improvised solutions that never made it into official reports. What also emerges are the quiet partnerships that developed between humans and animals in a world never meant for either.
Horse Tales from the Moon gathers the untold stories of Lunar Colony 3—tales that were never classified or hidden, only lost in the rush of building humanity’s future beyond Earth.
Thoughtful, imaginative, and grounded in the spirit of hard science fiction, this collection offers a rare look at life on the Moon through the small moments that history often forgets.
Because sometimes the stories that matter most are the ones that were never meant to be written down.
John Karpiscak | Rymdhäst 