help with a book.

What books have you read already?

Strange question but it is realistic in that we don't know where you're coming from so how can we help you go where you want. In addition to which do you really know where you are going?

But I would suggest, for starters, you think yourself in their whole world, that means you have to build everything about them in model in your mind.

What are your people like? What about their families? How will they live in your world?

I suggest you go find earth technologies that might be adapted to what you want. For example have you seen the tunnel digging machines they used to build the Chunnel and other tunnels? I have always thought they would make great means for mining the asteroids in space as well as the moon not to mention on the moon they would be very good for digging out a lunar base.

But for starters, assuming you have read nothing, I suggest you read Gerard K. O'Neill's the HIGH FRONTIER and COLONIES IN SPACE by T.A. Heppenheimer which is on the net. And I would also suggest you read MINING THE SKY by John S. Lewis. For agriculture study I suggest BACK TO BASICS by Reader's Digest to get a good background on farming so you can figure how your people are going to feed themselves. Most space planners figure it will be easier and cheaper for people in space to grow their own food rather than have it processed and shipped to them from earth.

You should also go do some net surfing for what you might be able to find.

Also, note of advice, no novel is ever completed as planned, don't resist any urge to change or rework your material into a better story.