Section 3: Contend in Vain?; Chapter 1-10 Summary

As chapter one begins Selene Lindstrom, the tour guide for the Lunar colony on the moon, is giving a tour to the Earth people that have just arrived. One of them asks to eat with her, and he soon asks about proton synchrotron. She tells the gentleman that that section of the Lunar colony is off limits to tourists.

In chapter two Selene is in her quarters with Barron Neville. She tells him about the odd man that she had lunch with and that he asked about the proton synchrotron. Neville becomes very agitated that Selene didn't catch the man's name or ask why he was interested in the proton synchrotron. Neville orders Selene to see the Earth man again and to find out anything she can about him.

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