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Six-time Hugo-Award-Winner Ben Bova provides Farside, area of the Grand Tour collection. Along side it of the Moon that never encounters Planet, is the perfect location for an astronomical observatory, farside. It's also the location for a twisted web of politics, personal desire, love, envy, and an Earth has been detected by murder.Telescopes on Earth -sized planet circling a star some thirty light-years away. Now the battle is onto get images of that remote world, photos and spectra that will display whether our planet is really like Earth, and if it contains life.Farside will are the largest optical telescope in the solar system in addition to a huge variety of radio antennas, the absolute most sensitive radio telescope feasible, protected from the disturbance of Earth’s radio chat with a thousand kilometers of the Moon’s strong body.Building the Farside observatory is just a complicated, often hazardous job.