SCIENCE & LIT: The Last Survivors Trilogy + a Mobile Moon!

[Ryan Goble]

If you have not read The Last Survivors Trilogy - it is one of my absolute FAVORITE (and terrifying) YA series I've every read. From wikipedia...

Life As We Knew It is a young adult science fiction novel by American author Susan Beth Pfeffer, first published in 2006 by Harcourt Books. It is the first book in the "Last Survivors Trilogy", followed by The Dead and the Gone. When an asteroid hits the moon and brings it closer to Earth, life in Northeastern Pennsylvania will never be the same again for Miranda and her family, with the lack of food and extreme cold major threats to their survival.

It is easy to read as an allegory for climate change and I can't recommend it enough. That said, this feature, "What If … the Moon Orbited at the Same Height as the ISS?" popped up at Slate and I thought it would make a great companion article...