The gripping story of one scientist in outer space another who watches over him the family
left behind and the lengths people will go to protect the people and planet they love
Scientist Alex Welch-Peters has believed for twenty years that his super-algae can reverse the
effects of climate change. His obsession with his research has jeopardized his marriage his
relationships with his kids and his own professional future. When Sensus the colossal tech
company offers him a chance to complete his research he seizes the opportunity. The catch?
His lab will be in outer space on Parallaxis the first-ever luxury residential space station
built for billionaires. Alex and six other scientists leave their loved ones to become Pioneers
the beta tenants of Parallaxis. But Parallaxis is not the space palace they were sold. Day and
night the embittered crew builds the facility under pressure from Sensus motivated by the
promise that their families will join them. Meanwhile back on Earth with much of the country
ablaze in wildfires Alex's family tries to remain safe in Michigan. His teenage daughter Mary
Agnes struggles through high school with the help of the ubiquitous Sensus phones implanted in
everyone's ears archiving each humiliation and wishing she could go to Parallaxis with her
father-but her mother will never allow it. The Pioneers are the beta testers of another program
too. As they toil away two hundred miles in the sky Sensus is designing an algorithm that will
predict human behavior. Tess a young social psychologist Sensus has hired to watch the
Pioneers through their phones begins to develop an intimate obsessive relationship with her
subjects. When she takes it a step further-traveling to Parallaxis to observe them up close-the
controlled experiment begins to unravel. Prescient and insightful A House Between Earth and
the Moon is at once a captivating epic about the machinations of big tech and a profoundly
intimate meditation on the unmistakably human bonds that hold us together. Story Locale: Outer
space near future Michigan California Wyoming
