The moon and the sun is a novel by american writer vonda n mcintyre published in 1997the book combines two major genres science fiction specifically the alternate history subgenre and historical romanceit won the nebula award for best novel in 1997 beating out a game of thrones by george r r martinthe novel was inspired by the short story written in the form of a faux encyclopedia . The moon and the sun is a historical fantasy novel about the capture of a mermaid during the reign of louis xiv the premise is incredible and unfortunately the execution of the novel winnowed away a lot of my gumption to keep reading i did love learning more about the court of the sun k. The size of the sun and the moon in absolute terms the sun and the moon couldnt be more different in size the sun measures 14 million km across while the moon is a mere 3474 km across. The sun gets brighter and brighter it feels like the moon had never existed while staying behind the sun the moon now feels extremely bad to be ignored and the argument between the couple starts the moon was upset about the power and brightness the sun has and the sun was blaming the moon being too childish and immature