# Help track down a short story
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-track-down-a-short-story/571522
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 16, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-track-down-a-short-story/571522 "2011-02-16T00:58:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@PJred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PJred)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-track-down-a-short-story/571522/1 "2011-02-16T00:58:01Z")
I’m trying to find a classic sci fi short story. It’s about a man who transfers his conciousness into a body on the moon trying to navigate a strange sort of maze. One wrong move and he dies, his spirit going back into his safe body. It is traumatic, but he learns to go farther each time he dies. I can’t remember how it ends or any other details. I just know it was absorbing and I’d like to read again now that I’m older. Any help would preserve my sanity. I’m going crazy trying to find this. Normal searches have failed.
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-track-down-a-short-story/571522/2 "2011-02-16T01:28:03Z")
Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys.
This one is a perennial on the SDMB. Everyone sort of remembers it but doesn’t quite remember how it all worked out.
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### Author:  [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-track-down-a-short-story/571522/3 "2011-02-16T04:14:12Z")
Let me just point out that this was originally a novella:
[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?56691](http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?56691)
It was then expanded into a novel:
[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1285](http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1285)
Here’s further information about it:
> **[Rogue Moon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_Moon)**
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> Rogue Moon is a short science fiction novel by American writer Algis Budrys, published in 1960. It was a 1961 Hugo Award nominee. A substantially cut version of the novel was originally published in F&SF; this novella-length story was included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two, edited by Ben Bova. It was adapted into a radio drama by Yuri Rasovsky in 1979.
> Rogue Moon is largely about the discovery and investigation of a large alien artifact found on the surface of the Moon. The o...