Signal Moon: A Short Story

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In her author’s note, Quinn states that Lily’s character is closely based on that of Pat Owtram, a petty officer in the Woman’s Royal Naval Service, aka the WRENS. Quinn states that author Tessa Dunlop wrote a book based on Ms Owtram entitled “The Bletchley Girls”. The ending of this story is inevitable. There’s just no other way this one works. But it’s easy to get so involved in their story that you just want it to have a different ending anyway. And that’s what broke me in the end. I knew what the end would be, but this was just one of those times where I really wanted a deus ex machina to step in and make that difference happen – even knowing how much I usually hate those kinds of endings. But it wasn’t, and it shouldn’t have been, meant to be. In a Nutshell: My very first Kate Quinn work, and I loved it! Just a short story and yet what lovely character development and writing! I could almost hear and see the characters. Recently a group of students from the College of New Jersey are attempting to bounce signals off the moon using the LoRa modulation scheme. LoRa is a modulation scheme designed to be used with IoT devices, however it also has great performance when signals are weak so it's a good candidate for moon bounce.

If you’re looking for something with a supernatural twist, Signal Moon is a must. It’s got everything Quinn brings to her stories. We have the 1940s woman who wants to do her thing for her country. She isn’t willing to let anyone die, and that includes a man she doesn’t know in 2023. The strength of this story is in the characters. The author sketches us a complete picture of Lily and her wartime service with just a bit of description and a whole lot of Lily’s internal monologue as she goes through her day pretending that everything is going to be alright even though she’s scared right down to her not-nearly-warm-enough fingertips that all is already lost. Even if all of this worked, there is no need to prioritize. All of this would weigh about 300 pounds on Earth, so 50 pounds on the moon, and you can carry it all.When there was a war on, and when your part in it was so deadly serious it sometimes kept you from sleeping at night, there was really nothing to do but make jokes about it all. It was either make jokes or start weeping at your desk, so Lily made jokes.

After all, our two principals don’t completely understand the why of it themselves. They just know that it happened. And that it saved them both. I am over the top satisfied with a very short story and its realism, Quinn offered me a chance to experience through words - a telecommunication of a sorts of quasi time travel. Is there a possibility to change history with the power of suggestion? I just don’t feel this exercise is accurate. My BS meter was in the red the whole time! I would also like NASA to give us their thoughts on this. I think leaving is suicide and you should wait for help in the spaceship! A novella available from Kindle Prime. Kate Quinn has written well-researched and informative books of historical fiction based on real people and events. This one is a stretch where she enters the realm of fantasy, and it works! Lily is from a titled English family and has set aside her life as a debutante. It is 1943, and she works at one of the Y stations scattered through the country. The task is intercepting coded enemy communications and sending them to Bletchley Park for decoding. She worries about the outcome of WW2 and whether her friends will survive on the battlefield. Will the allies be defeated by enemy forces, and does her work have any value?Pistols for propulsion? It would bump you 10 inches… and the CO2 tank would get one of the crew a few hundred yards away. Fun, but futile. In this short novella Lily Baines is a 20 y/o petty officer in the Women’s Royal Naval Service posted to a Y station in Yorkshire. She spends hours every day just listening and tuning through frequencies in the hopes of finding German intelligence to pass on to Bletchley Park. All of the women wrote down everything they heard and these messages were passed on to the codebreakers at Bletchley periodically throughout the day and night. Direct telecast from the Command service module is not possible but CSM stored the recording of conversation which is transmitted by LM (which occur once in a rotation because the LM is stationary while CSM is orbiting the moon) then CSM sents to earth.

Review: The Dead Take the A Train by Richard Kadrey and Cassandra Khaw – Escape Reality, Read Fiction! on Review: A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina RatherWe know Quinn for her novels set in the past. There’s always some sort of thriller to the tale, but the focus is always on real individuals from the past. Whether it’s a German Nazi trying to live free in the 1970s or a mystery surrounding codebreakers in the 1940s, there’s something that connects us to a very real past. For the first time ever, I kept putting myself in each of their (Lily’s and Matt’s) places and wondered how I would have reacted. This happens to me while reading full-length novels but never during a short story. I love how it dragged me into its action, thereby increasing the impact. In the audiobook, the two characters are brilliantly voiced by their own narrators, Saskia Maarleveld for Lily and Andrew Gibson for Matt and they embody their characters beautifully. The audio would not have worked half so well with a single narrator. (Saskia Maarleveld is also the narrator for several of the author’s novels, including this year’s The Diamond Eye, which just moved up the towering TBR pile as a result.) This well-researched novella had me wanting more. Although completely illogical, I felt bad for the main characters. How could they live out their respective lives with such a big secret and such an emotional connection that could never be fully explored? 😢😢😢 Across an eighty-year gap, Lily and Matt must find a way to help each other: Matt to convince her that the war she’s fighting can still be won, and Lily to help him stave off the war to come. As their connection grows stronger, they both know there’s no telling when time will run out on their inexplicable link. My thoughts