 What do the colony inhabitants share?
The shack and the job he filled were located in the medieval notion of the physical appearance of hell. Once in two weeks Earth-time a rocketship came around the horizon from Lunar City with stores for the colony deep underground. There is nothing like it on Earth, of course. They found the reason for the colony and the rocket landing field and the shack. There were air-tight bulkheads for safety, and a hydroponic garden to keep the air fresh, and all sorts of things to make life possible for men under if not on the Moon. With such an aid, a man can get into a tiny, coffinlike cubbyhole, and feel solidity above and below and around him, and happily tell himself that it feels delicious. All of which happened back on Earth and a long time ago. When Sattell fled to another continent, Pop followed because he had some distinct memories of his wife—and the way he'd felt about her—and some fugitive mental images of his children. But on Earth its contents would be computed in carats, and a hundred pounds was worth millions. The sun rose very, very slowly in what by convention was called the east. At the same time, liquid air from another tank evaporated to maintain the proper air pressure in the shack. The occupation made it absurdly easy to live on the surface of the far side of the Moon, whether anybody else could do it or not.
 fear of open spaces
 traumatic brain injuries  criminal backgrounds  fear of open spaces  aversion to sunlight