Astronaut Frank Borman is all alone on the moon. No ship. Nobody answering his radio calls.

His spacesuit is running out of air fast, yet he doesn’t know what he’s doing there.

Something is out there looming over him on the lunar surface. Something massive that doesn’t belong there.

Borman shouldn’t be there either — in just a few months Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are due to touch down in the Sea of Tranquility.

This is no NASA mission. But who else has the technological capability?

Perhaps that sinister grouping of defence intelligence powerbrokers known as Bermuda, although Borman suspects this is a giant step too far even for them.

Which only leaves the Russians.

If that’s true, he must have an important job to do. A job that transcends Cold War politics and space age rivalry.

But everything about this is is wrong.

Why has he been abandoned? And why can’t he remember anything?

Apollo 8.1 is compulsive reading… strap yourself in.

“A grippingly well told story.”

—Craig Berkman

No-one could have imagined there was worse to come.

Former Australian special forces soldier Stone Luckman never dreamed he could put his troubled past behind him.

In a search for survivors, Luckman rescues marooned surfer Mel Palace from a collapsing Gold Coast high rise. She tells him she’s been expecting him for weeks. Later, she claims she can read minds.

If his own insanity meter wasn’t off the register, he’d suspect she had a screw loose. But then lately he’s been having visions of an Aboriginal spirit man who is strangely connected to global events.

There are those who say the Earth has fallen victim to a terrible act of God. To China and America, however, it’s a declaration of war. Each accuses the other of being responsible.

The head of Australian defence intelligence sets Luckman a secret task aimed at ending the threat of war, but if it backfires he’ll be branded a terrorist and left on his own to take the rap.

Luckman is compelled to take Mel on the journey, though for the life of him he doesn’t know why.

He’s about to find out.

By NASA’s best guess, the crew of Apollo 8 are an even money chance of dying.

A long list of things could go catastrophically wrong as they attempt to park their supersonic spacecraft into stable lunar orbit.

But they get it done, paving the way for one giant leap toward the surface.

They are the first men alive to see the far side of the Moon — the lunar face permanently turned away from Earth.

Inside the tiny capsule, astronaut Bill Anders points his camera at the lunar horizon and captures one of the most famous photographs of all time.

Our planet, lonely and fragile in the eternal darkness of space.

Lonely, but perhaps not alone.

Another photo is taken that day… one so sensitive even the NASA chiefs don’t know about it.

Sleeping Gods puts you right there on the first manned mission to the Moon.

You’ll be surprised and amazed by this alternate view of space history, a prelude to Matt Eaton’s acclaimed novel, Blank.

If you’ve pondered flying to the Moon, climb inside the capsule with the men who did it.

Then join astronaut Frank Borman on a journey even more incredible that begins shortly after splashdown.Coming soon… Apollo 8.1 — go one step beyond Sleeping Gods on a space trip no-one was ever told about.

“Matt Eaton does not let you down with his smooth writing style.”— Amazon reviewer