CHAPTER FOURThere was no natural time on the moon. There was a fourteen day “night” and an equal period of day on the surface but in the station it was always the same and time, by the old system, was merely a useful appendage to living; not something which controlled the hours of sleep and activity.
It was, to Felix, an interesting routine. Meals were always the same size, altering in variety but with nothing to differentiate breakfast, lunch, dinner or supper. The personnel ate when they felt the need of food and slept when sleep became a necessity. Most of the time they worked and when they relaxed it was usually to exercise at manual labour or to do work of choice rather than of schedule.
It was, he thought, a little like the hive of a colony of ants but without the sharp diversity o
