Bookshop Interview with Author Claire Barner, Episode #253

Author Claire Barner discusses her debut novel, Moonrising . This sci fi romance takes place approximately 50 years in the future and is set largely on the moon's first colony. Main character, Dr. Alex Cole, has spent her life looking for ways to solve earth's growing food problem. When her funding is threatened, she finds herself being thrown a lifeline by a charismatic businessman who hires her to create a sustainable food source for the moon's first hotel. While living on the moon and trying to grow food is challenging enough, back home on earth support for her plans to save the planet are being threatened by government resistance and eco-terrorists. Is she willing to die for her grandiose vision of saving humanity and are she willing to sacrifice those she loves in the process? Claire describes Moonrising as cozy and romantic with some very real science and a heart-pounding climax.

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Bookshop Interview with Author Claire Barner, Episode #253 is an episode from The Bookshop at the End of the Internet by Stacey Horan.

This episode is 36:03 long.

This episode was published on Oct 29, 2025.

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