Darn that made me sad. Readers of my reviews may have come across me saying I love when a mother's love is included in a story. Welp this one had a mother/son love theme and it has kinda wrecked me.

Much of the story went over my head (politics, sf) but the gist is a mother used to read fables to her son when he was young. He is a grown man now. He is on the moon and there is a problem. a war has broken out on earth and they are left there to die. The story becomes a bit unreliable but the mother uses one of the fables as a way to rescue her son. She builds a bridge of monkeys to the moon to reach her son. When she gets there he is on his last bits of oxygen and he sees her as a hallucination. He finds it interesting that his dying thought is of his mother and her stories.

I'm not sure I appreciate the feeling it has left me with. She definitely gave me the feels but it may be too much for me personally.

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A mother uses a folk tale she told to her son Narbu to try and rescue him when his Moon expedition is stranded when hostilities break out between Australia and Egypt. Daft but fun. ( )