The Lunar Lichen is a 1960 sci-fi novella by Hal Clement. A geologist claims to have discovered lichens on the Moon, but did he really? Did he discover something else? This is fairly hard SF but also a tale of survival with fine suspense.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/06/hal-clements-lunar-lichen.html

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Hal Clement's The Lunar Lichen

The Lunar Lichen is a science fiction novella (or possibly novelette) by Hal Clement. It was originally published in Future Science Fiction...

@d4doome And this appears to be the only place it appears, outside of the original magazine. https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?84175
Title: The Lunar Lichen