Nonfiction · Scale Wars · Space volume
The High Ground: Claiming the Void
The Moon starts to matter when oxygen, tank farms, transport, and customers create a cheaper climb.
- Frontier nonfiction
- Scale Wars · Space volume
- 594 pages
- February 11, 2026
- Kindle on Amazon
About this book
The High Ground is the space-side Scale Wars argument. It looks at the Moon and near-Moon industry through the parts that decide whether anything scales: costs, fuel, transport, power, infrastructure, financing, law, and who actually pays for the first paying cargo.
Instead of a colonization pitch, it works the cost gradients — what gets cheaper when lunar oxygen exists, what a tank farm in the right orbit changes, and which businesses have to exist before the exciting ones can.
The Scale Wars pair
- The High Ground — this book, the space frontier
- The Deep Harvest — the Earth frontier: deep heat, ocean minerals, lithium, hydrogen
The two volumes stand alone and can be read in either order.