This is a free short science fiction story that served as the basis for my upcoming novel “Echoes In The Grey”. It features a solitary geophysicist working on Luna, surveying various areas in the quest for mineral and chemical wealth. John Sarangan enjoys the isolation. One day, he uncovers an anomaly that looks like an alien spaceship. This first contact encounter has a surprise ending too.

If you enjoy Star Trek, or reading Robert J. Sawyer, Ray Bradbury, or Ursula Le Guin, you’ll enjoy this short sci fi story.