Mankind's dreams of space exploration focused first on our closest celestial neighbor, the Moon. Jules Verne and H.G. Wells both wrote classic stories on such travels. The following is a bibliography of science fiction (and some fantasy) novels and short stories in which Earth's satellite has a major or at least significant role. Some of the citations are incomplete, but this will be remedied as time permits.
I have had a great deal of help with this bibliography. First a heartfelt thanks to subscribers of SF-Lovers and to the many visitors to this site for their comments and suggestions. And a note of special appreciation to Spike MacPhee someone whose extensive knowledge of the SF genre has been of incalculable value in compiling this work.
The Moon in Science Fiction is a dynamic list of sources that will continue to grow. I invite comments, corrections and additions.
I have had a great deal of help with this bibliography. First a heartfelt thanks to subscribers of SF-Lovers and to the many visitors to this site for their comments and suggestions. And a note of special appreciation to the late Spike MacPhee someone whose extensive knowledge of the SF genre has been of incalculable value when I first began to compile this work.
The Moon in Science Fiction Bibliography is a dynamic list of sources that will continue to grow. I invite comments, corrections and additions.
Last update June, 2020.
Patricia Altner
paltner1@mac.com
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- Aldiss, Brian W. Hothouse. London: Faber and Faber, 1962.
- A distant future where humans live insignificantly among the plants,and travel to the Moon inside giant migrating spiders.
- Aldiss, Brian W. "An Apollo Asteroid." In: Moon Shots. DAW, 1999.
- Allen, Roger MacBride. Farside Cannon. Baen Books, 1988.
- Allen, Roger MacBride. The Ring of Charon (The Hunted Earth series). Tor, Reissue edition 1994
- The Moon is one of the major locales.
- Allen, Roger MacBride. The Shattered Sphere.Tor, Reprint edition 1995.
- Conclusion to The Ring of Charon.
- Anderson, Kevin J. and Beason, Doug. Assemblers of Infinity. Spectra, 1993.
- "It is the twenty-first Century. Earth's space program is thriving, with a colony in place on the Moon. And then an incredible discovery is made on the lunar farside. A massive structure is being erected by living machines --microscopically small, intelligent, unstoppable, consuming whatever they touch. All who come near them die horribly..." From the cover.
- Anderson, Poul. "The Light"
- A short story. An expedition to the Moon discovers evidence of a previous expedition from Earth - by Leonardo da Vinci.
- Anderson, Poul. Operation Luna. Tor, 2000.
- "It is the most significant scientific discovery in history; proof that there is life on the Moon. Contacting it will be a task of magical proportions, which should be no problem for Ginny, a licensed witch, and her husband Steve, an engineer and werewolf. Even more challenging may be finding out who is trying to sabotage them, and therefore ruin the greatest magical and scientific achievement of the century."
- Aratus. A Voyage to the Moon.1793.
- Asimov, Isaac. Foundation and Earth. New York: Doubleday, 1986.
- Book five of Asimov's Foundation series. The ending takes place on the Moon.
This title was also published by Acacia Press, Inc.; 1987. - Asimov, Isaac. The Gentle Vultures.
- Moon plays a minor role.
- Asimov, Isaac.The Gods Themselves. New York: Doubleday, 1972.
- Winner of the Hugo Award.
Bantam Spectra; Reprint edition (October 1990).
From the publisher: "Only a few know the terrifying truth--an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun. They know the truth--but who will listen? They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy--but who will believe? These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth's survival." - Asimov, Isaac. The Key.
- Mystery short story in which a two man Moon expedition finds a mind altering alien artifact.
- Asimov, Isaac. The Singing Bell.
- Mystery short story in which illegal Moon-gem mining is central.
- Axler, James. Outlanders: Devil in the Moon. Gold Eagle, 2002(May).
- From the publisher: "Two centuries after a nuclear conflagration destroyed one way of life and spawned a far deadlier one, all that stands between extinction of the human race and freedom is a band of renegades who have declared war against ominous forces that claimed Earth eons ago. More than a struggle for survival, it is a fight to salvage the collective soul of humanity from the sinister architects of mankind. As the ruling oligarchy of nine barons rebuilds what was once the United States after an internecine war for power, a mysterious entity is attempting to impose a dark destiny on Earth. Kane and Grant, once part of the brutal police machine of a feudalistic order, are now leaders in a rebellion by those who once served the malevolent imposers. But the tides of battle turn once more with the discovery of a functional pre-dark Moon base, whose human defenders are all that stand between Earth and its obliteration."
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- Balmer, Edwin, and Wylie, Philip. When Worlds Collide (Bison Frontiers of...) Philadelphia, Lippincott [1950, c1933].
- Recently published by Univ of Nebraska Pr; (October 1999).
An extra solar planet which destroys the Earth takes out the Moon on its first pass. - Barton, William. The Transmigration of Souls. New York: Warner, 1996.
- "In the changing political and economic world of the 21st century, America has established a permanent Moonbase, along with manned expeditions to near Earth asteroids. During an archaeological dig on the Moon, Americans discover an alien base with what appears to be teleportation and time travel equipment. But where are the aliens?"
- Barton, William and Capobianco, Michael. Fellow Traveler. Bantam, 1991.
- An alternate history where the Soviet space program overtakes the U.S. space program. Parts of it are set on the Moon.
- Baxter, Stephen. "Moon Six." In: SF Age. March, 1997.
- American, British, and Russian astronauts land on the Moon and find themselves shifting between alternate realities.
- Baxter, Stephen. Moonseed. Harper Prism, 1999.
- Bacteria-like particle were brought to the Earth in Moon rocks from the Apollo program. These particles eat rock, transforming it into liquid, and then into molecule-sized black holes that devour the very fabric of space-time. An expedition is hurriedly sent to the Moon to try and solve the mystery of this plague before all life on our world is destroyed.
- Baxter, Stephen. "Sun-Drenched" In: Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction. Edited by Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagel. Overlook Press, 1998.
- This alternate Apollo stories is about two astronauts stranded on the Moon after their orbiter blows up. One of them is gay, a fact always kidded about among the astronaut corps but never confronted until now." (From Locus Nov. 1998 reviews by Mark R. Kelly.)
- Baxter, Stephen. "People Came From Earth." In: Moon Shots. DAW, 1999.
- Set on a dying Moon colony long after Earth has become ancient history. This short story can also be found in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection. edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, NY: St. Martin's, 2000.
- Baxter, Stephen. The Time Ships. New York: HarperPrism, c1995 and Harper Mass Market PaperbacksReprint edition, 1996.
- At one point in this novel the Moon is terraformed while the Earth is a frozen wasteland.
- Bear, Greg. "Heads" In: The Collected Stories of Greg Bear. Tor, 2002.
- From Locus, Oct 2002. "Heads" concerns an entrepreneurial Lunar settlement which finds its plan to import several hundred cryogenically frozen human heads, in the hope of eventually decoding the information locked up in the brains, inexplicably and violently challenged by a pseudo-religious cult which has amassed considerable political clout both on the Earth and on the Moon...
- Benford, Gregory. In the Ocean of Night: A Novel (Quantum.... Delacorte Press, 1977.
- Parts 5 and 6. Most of the story takes place at Marginis on the Moon in 2018.
- Bester, Alfred. The Stars My Destination. New American Library, [1957, c1956] and Vintage Books Reprint edition, 1996.
- There is a brief sequence when the hero Guy Foyle visits the Moon seeking vital information.
- Bethke, Bruce, and Vox Day. Rebel Moon. Pocket Books,1996.
- In 2069 there is a rebellion of the Lunar populace against the the autocratic rulers of the United Nations.
- Biggle, Lloyd. All the Colors of Darkness Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1963.
- Republished by Bart Books; November 1988.
Aliens kidnap a human by intercepting a matter transmitter. They take him to their base on the Moon. Contains an excellent sequence on a Moonbase established, by humans, using a matter transmitter. - Bisson, Terry. "The Hole in the Hole." In: Asimov's. Feb. 1994.
- The discovery of a Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) in a Brooklyn junkyard leads to the discovery of a back door to the Moon.
- Bisson, Terry. "The Shadow Knows." In: Asimov's. Sep. 1994. This story also appears in Isaac Asimov's Moons NY: Ace, 1997.
- "The author offers us a First Contact story - but, as is to be expected, in Bisson's hands, this familiar territory is full of unexpected twist and surprises, wry, funny, poignant, and quietly profound."
- Blish, James, and Norman L. Knight. A Torrent of Faces. 1967.
- A trillion person Earth in 2794 learns that Flavia asteroid will impact Unistam continent in forty days. A laser is built at Aristarchus to boil off some of the asteroid mass. Minor reference, p. 255, and perhaps one preceding.
- Boulle, Pierre. Garden on the Moon. New York: Vanguard, 1965.
- US, Soviets, and Japan trying for the first Lunar landing.
- Bova, Ben. Colony.
- This novel about O'Neill colonies, includes a visit to the Moon.
- Bova, Ben. Millennium: A Novel About People and Politics in the Year 1999. New York: Random House, 1976.
- (Republished as The Kinsman Saga. Dial Press, 1979) Chet Kinsman becomes the first Moonbase Commander as nuclear war threatens Earth.
- Bova, Ben. Moonrise. Avon, 1996 and Eos, 1998.
- Hard science fiction novel about a privatized Lunar project. Paul Stavenger, ex-astronaut, has a dream of expanding the former government run Moonbase, but in the high stakes corporate world he is bitterly opposed by his stepson Greg Masterson.
- Bova, Ben. Moonwar. New York: Avon Eos, 1998.
- Sequel to Moonrise. Earth bans nanotechnology and Moonbase declares its independence.
- Bova, Ben. When the Sky Burned. 1973.
- Born heir to the Moon, born by a father that deserted them for the lure of conquest on Earth, torn between them, which of his parents was offering him the key to the survival of humankind?
- Breuer, Miles J. and Jack Williamson. The Birth of a New Republic. AMZ Quarterly, 1931; 1981.
- A Lunar colony wages a war of independence.
- Brin, David. Earth. New York : Bantam Books, 1990 and Spectra, Reprint edition 1991.
- A war fought with "gasers" (gravitational lasers) first hits the Moon with a lump of arctic ice and later with a self contained habitat of humans and animals - opening the way to colonization after the war is over.
- Brown, Eric. "Steps Along the Way." In: Moon Shots. DAW, 1999.
- Brown, Frederick. "Honeymoon In Hell." In: Honeymoon In Hell, 1958.
- A collection of stories in which the title story (originally published in Galaxy,1950) is about sending an American man and a Russian woman to Hell Crater on the Moon to see if they can conceive a male child, because every woman on Earth can only conceive females.
- Brownlee, Jack. Moon-Quakes 2005: An Original Story. Writers Club Ltd, 2001.
- From the publisher: "A fact-filled fictional science thriller that turns our Earth into an orbital target for an erupting Moon. "
- Budrys, Algis. Rogue Moon. Boston: Gregg Press, 1977 (c. 1960).
- An alien artifact - a maze - is discovered on the Moon. The mapping is done by human duplicates. The Moon can only be reached by a matter transmitter which copies a person but does not transport him. The duplicates are telepathically linked and it is in this way that the sinister maze is gradually mapped. With new introductions by Algis Budrys and Joseph Milicia. Reprint of the edition published by Fawcett.
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Moon Maid. In: "The Land that Time Forgot, and, The Moon Maid: Two Science Fiction Novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs; illustrated by J. Allen St. John" Dover Publications., 1963.
- From the back cover: "[This novel] projects the reader far into the future and far into space as it records the first voyage to the Moon (Which Burroughs has taking place in 2025), the conquest of the Earth by the moon, and centuries of struggle and oppression as the enslaved Earth men try to regain possession of their planet."
- This reprint is actually made up of three novels originally published in magazine format. The Moon Maid (1923), The Moon Men (1925), and The Red Hawk (1925) Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Moon Maid: Complete and Restored.. University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
- Introduction by Terry Bisson and illustrated by Allen St. John.
- Busby, F. M. The Singularity Project. New York : TOR, 1993.
- A novel about the development of a matter transmitter which is used to maintain a Lunar colony.
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- Caidin, Martin. No Man's World. New York: Dutton, 1967.
- The Russians get to the Moon first and won't let the Americans land.
- Campbell, John W. Jr. The Moon is Hell. Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1951.
- Novella. The first expedition to the Moon is marooned there and must survive until the next expedition can rescue it.
- Cassutt, Michael. Red Moon. Tor (paperback), 2002. Hardcover edition published in 2001.
- This thriller delves into the depths of the Soviet space program and gives a plausible, deadly reason as to why they lost the race to the Moon.
- Chown, Marcus. See entries under Gribbin, John co-author.
- Clarke, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey. New York: New American Library, 1968 and New York: Roc, paperback reissue edition, 2000.
- The discovery of a mysterious monolith on the Moon spurs an expedition to Saturn in order to discover the alien architects.
- Clarke, Arthur C. Earthlight. New York: Ballantine Books; 1955.
- A Moon colony.
- Clarke, Arthur C. A Fall of Moondust. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961.
- A Lunar tourist surface excursion vehicle falls into a pool of Moondust.
- Clarke, Arthur C. The Hammer of God. New York: Bantam reprint edition, 1994.
- In this holocaust novel a huge asteroid nick-named Kali hurtles toward Earth bringing destruction with it. There is one scene in which a Lunar marathon is held.
- Clarke, Arthur C. If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth.
- A short story in which the Moon colony holds the only post- apocalyptic survivors.
- Clarke, Arthur C. The Other Side of the Sky. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1958.
- An anthology including several short stories about a tripartite American, Russian, and British expedition to the Moon. There are stories on archery, gem collecting, and plant breeding on the Moon, as well as British income tax avoidance.
- Clarke, Arthur C. Prelude to Space New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970, c1954.
- Reissued by Del Rey, 1992.
"Here is the compelling story of the launching of Prometheus -- Earth's first true spaceship -- and of the men who made it happen." - Clarke, Arthur C. Rendezvous with Rama. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.
- Reissued by Bantam Spectra, 1990.
A conference of scientists and politicians is held at the Moon colony to decide what to do about Rama. Political tensions between the space colonies and Earth are depicted. - Clarke, Arthur C. Report from...
- A short story that ends: Yes, the moon is now made of green cheese.
- Clarke, Arthur C. The Secret . 1963.
- Short story dealing with a secret benefit to living on the Moon.
- Clarke, Arthur C. The Sentinel. 1951.
- A short story that formed the basis for the movie and novel 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- Clarke, Arthur C.; Lee, Gentry. The Cradle in Orbit. New York: Warner Books, 1988.
- Clement, Hal, ed. First Flights to the Moon. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970.
- An anthology of Moon stories with an introduction by Isaac Asimov.
- Clement, Hal. The Ranger Boys In Space. L.C. Page, 1956.
- Adults can't take zero gee, so four teenagers are trained to make the first Lunar landing.
- Clough, Brenda. The Doors of Death and Life. (Hardcover) Tor, 2000 and (Paperback) Tor, 2001.
- This novel is a direct sequel to Clough's 1997 book How Like a God. Edwin Barbarossa, who's been working on Earth's Moon colony, is involved in a space shuttle accident. As the only survivor, he is at first proclaimed a hero and then falls under the suspicion of authorities who cannot explain how Barbarossa survived when all others on the shuttle perished. For a complete review of this work see Locus, April, 2000.
- Cohen, Barney. Blood on the Moon. Tor, 1984.
- One hundred years in the future, the moon has just experienced its first mass homicide. Murders without motive? Or some complex and heinous conspiracy? Space adventurer Asher Bockhorn and his friend Pekkar Foskollio find the answers.
- Collins, Ron and Linda L. Dunn. "Moonlighting". In: Artemis. Spring, 2000.
- "This story concerns partners in a lunar mining operation that is in danger of going bankrupt because the miners are on strike..." (from Locus, Sept. 1999).
- Correy, Lee [pseud. of G. Harry Stine]. Contraband Rocket. New York: Ace, 1956.
- In 2050, the SouthWestern Rocket Society attempts to refit a scrapped spaceship and make the first private-citizens' trip to the Moon, but the UN only allows governments and corporations to legally operate spaceships.
- Craigie, Dorothy. Voyage of the Luna I. New York: Messner, 1949.
- A novel about two stowaway children on the first Moon ship. [Juvenile].
- Crowther, Peter, editor. Moon Shots. New York: DAW, 1999.
- A collection of 16 short stories. Top
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- Daniel, Tony. "Life on the Moon." In: Asimov's Science Fiction. April, 1995. This story also appears in Isaac Asimov's Moons.New York: Ace, 1997.
- "An evocative and melancholy look at what the costs of life on the Moon might be, in terms of one human life."
- Dante Allegiri. The Divine Comedy: Paradise.
- On his trip through the heavens Dante visits the Moon.
- Danziger, Paula. This Place Has No Atmosphere. Doubleday, 1986.
- Reissued by Paper Star, 1999.
Young Adult book.
From the publisher: It's the year 2075 and students take classes in ESP, people live in malls, there aren't any parks left, and thanks to an airtight dome there is a colony on the Moon. Aurora couldn't be happier--she's part of the "in" crowd, her best friend is a celebrity, and Matthew has asked her to Homecoming. But Aurora's parents have new jobs on the Moon, and she and her little sister must leave their friends and schools to go with them. Aurora is sure she will hate life on the Moon. - Davis, Hank. "Squatter's Rights." In: If March, 1967.
- Antarctica turns out to be a huge, living alien, which came here eons ago in its spaceship - the Moon.
- DeBergerac, Cyrano. Histoire Comique de la Lune (A Voyage to the Moon) 1657.
- In this book, Cyrano flies with a multi-stage rocket to the Moon and first lands in Paradise, where he meets some biblical figures. Then he comes to the city of the giants, where he is at first shown as a monstrosity on a fair. Later, he is brought to court, where he tries to prove that he is human, that he is gifted with reason and that the moon the Lunarians see is the real Earth. He is seen as a parrot with the ability to speak and his defense of the Aristotelian science evoke laughter. On the one hand, his comic history of the Moon, as the French title says, is a humorous story, always funny and pleasant to read. On the other hand, descriptions of mankind as beasts without reason are likely to irritate the reader. (Information provided by Matthias Bode.)
- Del Rey, Lester. Mission to the Moon. Winston, 1950.
- Second book in a series and prequel to Moon of Mutiny. First landing on the Moon. Fred Halpern tries to make the first solo flight.
- Del Rey, Lester. Moon of Mutiny. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961.
- Charged with insubordination for refusing to follow orders, and endangering the lives of others, a rebellious cadet is dismissed from the Goddard Space Academy and seeks to join the Moon colony.
- Di Filippo, Paul. "The Man Who Stole the Moon." In: Moon Shots. DAW, 1999.
- Di Vono, Sharman. Blood Moon. New York: DAW, 1999.
- "In the early part of the 21st century, the United States renewed its commitments to the space programs, building a base on the far side of the Moon. The first four missions of the new century went off without a htich. But on the fifth mission disaster struck. First came an urgent message from Farside Base, then a total loss of communications. The launch of the FS-6 team was moved up to mount a rescue mission to Farside. But when they reached the base, they found a situation beyond human comprehension. The station was a mess, with graffiti scrawled everywhere, including the mysterious phrase, 'food for the Moon.' Two members of the FS-5 team were dead, obviously murdered. A third died of fright soon after they found her. And the mission commander and 2 other astronauts were missing. Suddenly the FS-6 team found themselves becoming de facto detectives in a murder investigation for which there were no easy answers. And hanging over them was the threat that whatever claimed the sanity and lives of their friends and colleagues might at any moment strike at them!"
- Dick, Philip K. Time Out of Joint (Vintage, 2002).
- "is about a man who lives in a Truman Show-esque world, that is completely artificial. Living in a town that is a set, his profession, from which he has made millions, is deciphering a code in the daily paper, and he has done it every day for years. In reality, the code that he deciphers details the places on Earth where the Lunar Rebellion will next strike. He discovers the trickery, and escapes, eventually discovering modern society and in the end, finding his way to the Lunar rebels, where, he plans to give them the information to destroy the Earth-based enemy who have held him captive for so many years." (Thanks to Matthew T. for this information.)
- Drury, Allen. The Throne of Saturn. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971.
- Part of an ill-fated attempt to fly to Mars, as depicted in Allen Drury's1971 novel, involved the practice of landings on the Moon. (Thanks to Joe Bader for information on this novel.)
- Dunn, Linda L
- See entry under Collins, Ron.
- Dwyer, John W. The Unknown Sky: A Novel of the Moon. iUniverse, 2001.
- From the publisher: "Has a miracle been televised from the moon? Something has happened at CATLUM 1, an isolated mission in the lunar highlands. The Vatican says it wants to know the truth, so does the CIA. A media storm trooper and his corporate allies plot a deadly scheme, while a scientific team is sent from earth to examine the man at the center of the controversy. Is he a saint or a dissolute fraud? Two women, one tied to the past, the other to the future, also wonder. He may hold the answers, if there are any..." Top
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- Edelman, Scott. "The Last Man on the Moon." In: Moon Shots. DAW, 1999.
- Ellern, William B. New Lensman. London: Futura Publications, 1976.
- Set on the Moon.
- Evans, Christopher. Mortal Remains. Vista, 1995.
- The Noosphere, civilization of the solar system, is Moon-based and part of the narrative takes place there. Top
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- Farmer, Philip Jose. Tongues of the Moon. New York: Pyramid, 1964 (Reprinted, 1970).
- An adventure story with the protagonists on the Moon when nuclear war breaks out on Earth. More information on this story and other works by Farmer can be found at The Official Philip Jose Farmer Home Page.
- Feeley, Gregory. The Oxygen Barons (Ace Science Fiction,... Ace, 1990.
- The action of the story mainly takes place on the Moon.
- Ford, John. Growing Up Weightless. Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1993.
- The action of the story mainly takes place on the Moon.
- Forward, Robert L. Martian Rainbow. New York: Ballantine, 1991.
- Republished by iUniverse.com in 2001.
Plot splinter: the Mars colony saves the Moon colonists from attack by Earth, which has fallen prey to a mad dictator. - Forward, Robert L."Greater Infinity" In: Analog. Date?.
- One of a series of stories dealing with travel between alternative histories. In this one time stream transference is used to travel to the Moon instead of to another Earth.
- Forward, Robert L. Timemaster TOR, 1992 and iUniverse, 2002
- The use of Rotovators (rotating space elevators) on the Moon is described, along with the sight of these from Earth. The Moon is visited (briefly) in a flashback, but is not a major part of the story.
- Foster, Alan Dean. The Little Bits That Count. In: Moon Shots. DAW, 1999.
- Fowler, George. A Flight to the Moon 1813.
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- Garcia y Robertson, R. "Werewolves of Luna" In: Asimov's Science Fiction. mid-December, 1994. This story also appears in Isaac Asimov's Moons. New York: Ace, 1997.
- "This fast-paced novella starts with a space-suited man running out of air on the barren surface of the Moon, and from there runs us at full-tilt through a gauntlet of escapes, chases, near-abductions, con games, heroic quests, deadly dangers, and bizarre adventures, complete with space pirates, aliens, high-stake gamblers, computer gamers, knights in armor, genies, houris, vampires, and of course, the eponymic Werewolves of Luna themselves."
- Gauger, Rick. "The Vacuum-Packed Picnic" In: OMNI. September, 1979, Vol., 1, No. 12
- Two astronauts - a male and a female - meet in a lunar base, decide to go for a picnic on the surface when they can have some privacy. They take an inflatable tent, strip off naked, then the real fun begins.... but not in the way you thought. (Information provided by Martin Dawson.)
- Gerrold, David. Bouncing Off the Moon. Tor, 2002.
- Sequel to Jumping Off the Planet.
From Booklist: "The three young Dingillian brothers, aided by loquacious money launderer Alexei Krislov, must sneak off Geosynchronous Station to the Moon. There they take a long hike across the rugged surface, which abounds with technological and natural wonders, and meet more perils than Pauline ever faced, as well as suspected human treachery on all sides. " - Gerrold, David. Leaping to the Stars. Tor, 2002.
- Sequel to Bouncing Off the Moon.
From the back cover: Having divorced his parents and escaped to the moon, Charles and his brothers find themselves faced with a most difficult decision. Unable to return to Earth, where do they go? One option is the distant Earth colony Outbeyond. Complicating matters, he and HARLIE a state of the art intelligence unit have become valuable commodities in a Free Luna movement. A hijacking aboard ship, however, and suspicions of HARLIE's true motives could doom the brothers bid for freedom Ð forever. Book 3 in the Starsiders Trilogy. - Gibson, Edward. In the Wrong Hands. New York: Bantam. 1992.
- From Ingram: "Joe Rebello, an unconventional astronaut from the World Space Federation, risks his life to penetrate a mysterious lunar laboratory, where the genetic experiments of a twisted genius threaten humanity."
- Godfrey, Bob and Stan Hayward. Henry's Cat, The Moon Trip. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1983.
- Children's story.
- Godwin, Francis. Man in the Moon. 1638.
- "The protagonist Domingo Gonzales is brought to the moon by domesticated geese. He meets giants up there. The larger they are, the older they get. Life on the moon is happy, because no lawyers disturb the peace, a motif quite often used in the following time, namely by Swift. " (Information on this story provided by Matthias Bode.)
- Golde, Kenneth. Apollo Main. Fire Breathing Dragon, Inc., 2000.
- "A war fought in space. A love torn between planets. An ore miner on the Moon leads the Lunar Colonists in a Revolutionary War fought against the government of Earth. The secret to their freedom, or their destruction, lays hidden deep under the surface of the Moon, in the great mine called Apollo Main."
- Greenland, Colin. The Way To Norwich. In: Moon Shots. DAW, 1999.
- Gribbin, John and Marcus Chown. Double Planet. Avon, 1991.
- Gribbin, John and Marcus Chown. Reunion. 1991
- Sequel to Double Planet.
- Grousset, Paschal (1844-1909) The Conquest of the Moon; A Story of the Bayouda. New York: Arno Press; 1975.
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- Haddon, Mark. The Sea of Tranquillity. Harcourt, 1996.
- Illustrated by Chritian Biruminham.
A children's story about a boy's fantasy about astronauts walking on the Moon. - Hamilton, Edmond. The Haunted Stars. New York: Pyramid Books. 1962.
- An alien base is found on the Moon in 1966.
- Hamilton, Edmond. Outlaws of the Moon. 1952.
- Captain Future battles the mean guys on his home world and discovers a lost race.
- Hamilton, Edmond. "The Other Side of the Moon". 1929.
- Harness, Charles L. Lunar Justice. New York: Avon, 1991.
- Much of this novel is set at a Lunar court.
- Harper, Steven. Dead Man on the Moon. Phobos Impact, 2006.
- From the publisher: Sci-Fi Meets CSI. When humanity's only moon colony suffers its first murder, it's up to the forensic experts of Luna City Special Investigations to solve the case.
- Harrison, Harry. The Daleth Effect; A Science Fiction Novel. New York, Putnam [1970]
- Paperback issued by Berkley, 1977. An Israeli scientist develops a space drive which is implemented in secret by the Danes. When a Russian Moon expedition crash lands, The Danes rescue them is a converted submarine. The Danes then set up a huge industrial development on the Moon for security reasons.
- Harrison, Harry. Invasion: Earth. Ace Charter, 1983.
- The show down with the alien invaders takes place on the Moon.
- Hartmann, W. "Handprints on the Moon" In: The Planets. B. Preiss, ed. Bantam, 1985.
- Touching story about international cooperation as the Moon is colonized.
- Heinlein, Robert A. "Black Pits of Luna"
- Short story.
- Heinlein, Robert A. The Cat Who Walked Through Walls. New York: Putnam, 1985.
- Heinlein, Robert A. "Columbus Was a Dope"
- Short story. Surprise ending.
- Heinlein, Robert A. Destination Moon. Boston: Gregg Press, 1979.
- With a new introduction by David G. Hartwell.
- Heinlein, Robert A. "Gentlemen Be Seated"
- Short story.
- Heinlein, Robert A. Have Spacesuit Will Travel. New York: Scribner, 1958 and Ballantine, 1995.
- A young man, keen to travel to the moon, enters a soap competition offering a Moon trip as first prize. He wins a consolation prize (a space suit). He later is kidnapped by aliens who take him first to the Moon, and then to Pluto. The novel includes an attempt to escape across the lunar surface. [Juvenile].
- Heinlein, Robert A. "The Long Watch"
- Short story.
- Heinlein, Robert A. The Man Who Sold the Moon. Chicago: Sastra, 1950 and Yestermorrow, 1999.
- A collection of six short stories with the title entry about billionaire D.D. Harriman, who cajoles a reluctant humanity into helping him realize his dream of space flight to the Moon.
- Heinlein, Robert A. The Menace From Earth Baen, 1999.
- A collection of Heinlein stories has been. The title story takes place on the moon where, under a dome, colonists can strap on wings and fly.
- Heinlein, Robert A. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. Putnam, 1966 and St. Martin's Press, 1997.
- The revolt of Earth's colonies on Luna.
- Heinlein, Robert A. "Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon"
- Short story.
- Heinlein, Robert A. "Requiem." In: Requiem and Tributes to the Grand Master, editor Yoji Kondo. New York; Tor, 1992. Reprint edition by Tor, 1994.
- In this short story, originally published in 1940, an old man fulfills his dream to journey to the Moon even though he knows the rigors of the trip will kill him. The is the same man, D. D. Harriman, who is the hero of The Man Who Sold the Moon.
- Heinlein, Robert A. Rocket Ship Galileo. , Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1947.
- A young adult novel about a group of kids and a scientist who put an atomic engine in a commercial rocket making it capable of travel to the Moon.
- Heinlein, Robert A. The Rolling Stones, New York: Scribner, 1952.
- Heinlein, Robert A. "Searchlight." In: The Past Through Tomorrow, New York: Putnam's, 1967.
- A blind girl, lost on the Moon, is located by means of musical notes.
- Heinlein, Robert A. Space Cadet. New York: Scribner, 1948.
- Reissued by Ballantine in 1992.
Some very well done scenes take place on the Moon. - Heinlein, Robert A. The Star Beast. New York: Scribner, 1954 and Ballantine Books, Reissue edition (August 1995).
- Aliens propose to demonstrate thIE powerful weapons harmlessly by zapping the Moon. They are dissuaded by explaining that many colonists live there.
- Herge. Destination Moon (Adventures of Tintin). Little Brown, 1988.
- First published in 1953 by French author Herge.
A comic book adventure for children ages 4-8. Tinin helps a professor build a rocket ship to the moon. - Herge. Explorers on the Moon (Adventures of.... Little Brown, 1988.
- First published in 1954 by French author Herge.
A comic book adventure for children ages 4-8. Tintin and his friends make it to the Moon and back. - "Hermes to the Ages" In: Analog. Date?.
- An intelligent dinosaur is discovered on the Moon in suspended animation.
- Hessel, John. "The Juniper Tree"In:Science Fiction Age. Sept. 2000. p. 56+.
- On the Moon, Jack Baldwin thought he had found a place of peace. All he really found was another place to hide.
- Hickam, Homer H. Back to the Moon: A Novel. New York: Delacrote, 1999 (Hardcover) and Dell, 2000 (Paperback).
- "Helium-3, which promises clean, limitless energy for all mankind, is rare on Earth but abundant on the Moon - and rocket scientist Jack Medaris will do anything to get there. So he hijacks the space shuttle Columbia...and nothing - not break-downs, nor an unexpected hostage nor a shadowy group bent on keeping the isotope off Earth - will get in his way." (quoted from SFBC catalog.)
- Hogan, Ernest."Skin Dragons Talk" In: Science Fiction Age. March, 1998.
- "Goro Beltram was the scum of the Earth. Now the Yakuza - and a mysterious and invisible friend - were helping him to become the scum of the Moon as well."
- Hogan, James P. The Giants Novels: Inherit the Stars/the... New York: Ballantine, 1977.
- Inherit the Stars can be found in The Giants Novels: Inherit the Stars/The Gentle Giants of Ganymede/Giant's Star/3 Novels in One, published by Del Rey in 1994.
A 50,000 year old mummy of a human astronaut is found on the Moon, resulting in some unexpected revelations about the history of humanity and the solar system. - Holder, Nancy. The Six Families (Gambler's Star, No 1). New York: Avon/Eos, 1998.
- "Moonbase Vegas has become a mecca for wheelers and dealers--and a bagman named Deuce McNamara. Working for one of the six controlling families, the Borgiolis, Deuce enacts the dual roles of both dealer and agent, until he realizes that this cutthroat game is about to explode into an all-out mob war for control of the Moon." ( from the publisher).
- Holder, Nancy. Legacies and Lies (Gambler's Star, No 2). New York: Avon/Eos, 1999.
- "Opportunist Deuce McNamara considers himself THE Man in the Moon. The former bagman for the Borgioli clan on Moonbase Vegas works every angle he can and comes up with aces. Now the right-hand man to Hunter Castle, the wealthy businessman and owner of the new casino, Darkside City, Duece spins in an orbit of riches and power. But when a powerful explosion rips apart Castle's fabled spacecraft, GAMBLER'S STAR, Deuce's world spins out of control. The lunar St. Valentine's Day-style catastrophe has rubbed out the top echelons of the Six Families that control the Moon and the Castle himself, leaving Deuce in the middle of the bloodbath of all bloodbaths. As the families savagely pursue vendettas and the rebels of the Moonsider Liberation Front launch a campaign of terror, it is up to Deuce to intervene, stop the slaughter and prevent puritanical Earthsiders from imposing a tyranny of decency on the Moon." (from the publisher).
- Howe, Steve. Honor Bound Honor Born. LunaTech, 1997.
- Finally, in the year 1999, a man once again sets foot upon our celestial neighbor. Representing the private business Delena Corp, Hawk Stanton is placed on the Moon by using a sequence of new, innovative technologies. Tools used by a man to survive.
- Hunter, Evan. see entry under Marsten, Richard.
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- Irving, Washington. "The Conquest of the Moon." Originally published in 1809. Also published in An ABC of Science Fiction : From Aldiss to Zelzany -Twenty-Six excursions into the Fantastic edited by Tom Boardman, Jr. 1971 and in the April 1955 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
- "It is more a political work than science fiction, where Irving equates the conquest of the natives of the New World with a conquest of earth by Moon inhabitants. The short story is from 1809. Irving's attitude towards the "savages" indicates a minority view, regarding the confiscation of the native lands, of that time." (Thanks to Tim Kehoe for this information.)
- Isaac Asimov's Moons. Edited by Gardner Dozois and Sheila Williams. NY: Doubleday, 1997.
- A collection of 7 short stories about - Guess what?
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- Johns, Captain. Kings of Space.
- Written in the 1950s, this is a children's book about a reclusive scientist who builds a space craft, and flies to the moon, Mars and Venus. He finds the moon to have thin atmosphere, and life.
- Jones, Raymond F. "The Moon Is Death". In: Future Science Fiction. March 1953.
- This tale involves the mystery of the deaths of a large group of astronauts on the moon's surface shortly after their arrival. The second expedition finds that strewn across the surface of the moon are stones that accelerate the aging process in men thus causing swift death. The last survivor realizes that if any of the stones reach earth it will spell the end of mankind so he sets off a nuclear explosion destroying himself, the two spacecraft on the moon's surface, and the moon itself. (Information and abstract submitted by Richard Simms.)
- Jones, Raymond F. "Stay Off the Moon! In: Amazing Stories. Dec. 1962.
- This story concerns a robotic lunar exploration mission that discovers unexplained activity beneath the lunar surface. One of the scientists monitoring the mission back on earth realizes what is behind the phenomena and sees a potential danger to mankind from this newly discovered alien life-form. Unfortunately he discovers this too late. (Information and abstract submitted by Richard Simms.)
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- Kepler, Johannes. Somnium.
- Johannes Kepler, the famous astronomer who formulated the laws of planetary motion, wrote what some consider the first science fiction story. Somnium (The Dream) tells of travelers who walk across shadow bridge to the Moon. They also discover that the Moon is inhabited. The story was published posthumously in 1634.
- Kerr, Philip. The Second Angel. New York: H. Holt, 1999(Hardcover) and Pocket, 2000 (Paperback).
- From Amazon.com. In 2069, Earth is devastated by climate change, killer plagues, and scarce resources. P2 is a deadly (but curable) virus that infects almost the entire population. The cure is clean blood, which is in critically short supply and is affordable only to the very rich, who live in protected enclaves and engage in market speculation on the price of the vital fluid. On the Moon, sex hotels and high-security prisons share turf with the National Blood Bank, where uncontaminated blood is kept. Enter Dana Dallas, a crack security systems designer and member of the wealthy, healthy elite. When he finds out his infant daughter needs clean blood to survive, he starts a chain of events that will make him the sworn enemy of some very dangerous people. Dallas teams up with several shady characters to try and break the bank.
- Kessel, John. "The Juniper Tree."In:Science Fiction Age. Jan. 2000.
- Set in a utopian matriarchal society on the Moon, in 2085.
- Killough, Lee. Liberty's World. New York: DAW Books, 1985.
- A photograph of Earth's Moon reveals to the clever native that the strangers are far, far from home.
- Kline, Otis Adelbert. Maza of the Moon. New York: Ace, c1964.
- First published in 1930. A scientist launches an unmanned explosive rocket at the Moon. Another rocket comes back from the Moon and blows up in a city. To prove that his rocket didn't go up and come down (he had been flying in high altitude aircraft at the time, and saw it explode on the lunar surface, but due to clouds nobody else saw that), he takes off for the Moon in his one-man rocket, finds a valley or something with air and a beautiful girl ( the eponymous Maza) fighting with an ugly humanoid, and guess whose side our hero comes down on.
- Kooistra, Jeffery D. "Trajectories". In: Artemis. Spring, 2000.
- "In 2095 radiotelescopist Steve Smith does suicide orbits in his spare time, flying tightly plotted orbits around the Moon that bring him to within a few hundred meters of the surface..." (from Locus, Sept. 1999)
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- Landis, Geoffrey A. "A History of the Human and Post-Human Species: A View from Evolutionary Ecology." In: Science Fiction Age. Jan. 2000.
- New species evolve to fill ecologies on the Moon and Mars.
- Landis, Geoffrey A. "A Walk in the Sun." In: Asimov's SF. Oct. 1991. This story also appears in Isaac Asimov's Moons NY: Ace, 1997.
- An astronaut crash-lands on the Moon and is determined to survive no matter what she has to do or how far she has to go.
- Laurie, Andre. Les Exiles de la Terre. 1887. Translated as The Conquest of the Moon. UK, 1889.
- Lawrence, Louise. Moonwind. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.
- One of two teenage winners of a trip to earth's first Lunar base falls in love with an astral extraterrestrial who has been stranded on the Moon for thousands of years and who needs his help to repair her spaceship so that she can return home.
- Lee, Tanith. "The Man who Stole the Moon: A Story of the Flat Earth" In: Realms of Fantasy. Feb. 2001.
- "Stealing the Moon is as easy as stealing a lover's heart. giving it back is a bit more difficult."
- Leinster, Murray. Space Platform.1953.
- Book 1 of a trilogy about the beginning of space travel. There is a landing on the Moon and the establishment of a Lunar station.
- Leinster, Murray. Space Tug. 1953.
- Book 2 of a trilogy about the beginning of space travel. There is a landing on the Moon and the establishment of a Lunar station.
- Leinster, Murray. City on the Moon. 1957.
- Book 3 of a trilogy about the beginning of space travel. There is a landing on the Moon and the establishment of a Lunar station.
- Lem, Stanislaw. Peace on Earth. Harvest Books, 1996.
- From the publisher: "Are the self-programming robots on the Moon ensuring "peace on earth," or are thy secretly plotting a terrestrial invasion of their own? Only Ijon Tichy, sent on a dangerous mission to report on the robot's activities, know for sure. But, as luck would hav it, he is caught by a highly focused ray, which severs his corpus collosum and leaves the left side of his brain at odds with the right."
- Lerner, Edward M. Moonstruck. Baen, 2005.
- From the publisher: Kyle Gustafson had been doing work he loved, with the space program, anemic though it was, until disaster struck and a shuttle was lost on takeoff. There had to be a fall guy, and Kyle was picked-but a few months later, the American space program instantly became a quaint relic when aliens in a gigantic starship orbited the moon and made contact with Earth. They said that they represented a vast federation of intelligent races and they hoped that Earth would prove eligible to join the Federation. Kyle found himself back in good favor, picked to interface with the alien representatives sent to Earth. But there were a few false notes in the utopian front the aliens presented. Surveillance and other satellites were disappearing from orbit in a way that might have made the Americans suspect the Russians and the Russians suspect the Americans, except that each was aware of the other side's disappearances. And when the aliens began handing out small objects of alien art to world leaders as tokens of friendship, Kyle became suspicious. Technicians investigated and found that the items were actually listening devices. Worse, odd events were happening all over the world which seemed deliberately planned to provoke the U.S. and Russia into war, possibly even a nuclear holocaust. Were the aliens trying to get Earth to wipe itself out? And why? Kyle would find that he had an ally among the aliens, but one who was regarded as a freak by her own kind. Her influence was limited, but Kyle had to find a way out of the crisis before the world exploded in nuclear flames, or else the aliens grew impatient and decided to do the job themselves. . .
- Lerner, Fred. "Rosetta Stone". In: Artemis. Spring, 2000.
- "Dan, an information scientist, is brought to the Moon from Earth to help investigate a newly discovered underground warren apparently built by aliens. Inside is a library full of human books arranged in apparently random order..." (from Locus, Sept 1999).
- Lichtenberg, Jacqueline. Those of My Blood. New York. St. Martin, 1988.
- The luren are a race from a distant world. On Earth they are known as vampires. When an alien ship crashes on the Moon, there are indications it came from the luren home world.
- Lieber, Fritz. The Wanderer. New York: Walker, 1970.
- A world appears out of hyperspace next to Earth. Tidal forces cracks the Moon, and an astronaut flies his ship through the gap. Later, the Moon is broken up by the tides, and used as fuel for the Wanderer planet.
- Locke, Richard Adams , 1800-1871. The Moon Hoax: Or, A Discovery that the Moon Has a Vast Population of Human Beings. Boston: Gregg Press, 1975.
- With a new introduction by Ormond Seavey.
- Long, Karawynn. Adjusting the Moon.
- A short story winner of Writers of the Future contest. "In virtual reality, adjusting the Moon is as easy as moving a saucer. But can you adjust your lovers, your relationships, in the same way?"
- Lovegrove, James. "Carry the Moon in My Pocket." In: Moon Shots. DAW, 1999.
- Lucian. True History.
- Written around 170 AD, this story tells of a ship swept up to the Moon by a waterspout.
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- Mackay, Scott. Orbis. Roc, 2002.
- From a review in Locus, April 2002 by Gary K. Wolfe. "Mackay adds a rather bold alternate-history scenario to the alien puppet-master theme: centuries before the birth of Christ, the Roman Empire had achieved such a level of technology that they were able not only to establish a colony on the Moon, but to explore other planets and eventually to transport themselves en masse to a planet called Hortus in a distant star system, where they eventually lost track of even the location of Earth, to which they still hope to return someday."
- Maine, Charles Eric. High Vacuum. Ballantine, 1958.
- A story about the first landing on the moon. The rocket crashes and the crew must survive.
- Marsten, Richard (pseud for Evan Hunter). Rocket to Luna. Philadelphia: Winston, 1953.
- A teenager on the first Moon flight tries to make a trek to a supply rocket when the oxygen supply runs low. [Juvenile].
- Massie-Ferch, Kathleen M. "Moon Hunters." In: Moon Shots. DAW, 1999.
- Maurois, Andre. The Next Chapter: The War Against the Moon.
- A short story first published in The Forum July, 1927.
- McAuley, Paul J. "How We Lost the Moon, A True Story By Frank W. Allen." In: Moon Shots. NY: DAW, 1999.
- An out of control experiment inserts a black hole into the Moon. This short story can also be found in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection. edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, NY: St. Martin's, 2000.
- McCollum, Michael. Thunder Strike. New York: Del Rey, 1989.
- Earth is menaced by a collision, and the Moon is involved in the prevention effort.
- McDevitt, Jack. Moonfall. New York: HarperPrism, 1998 (Hardcover) and HarperCollins, 1999 (Paperback).
- In this disaster/adventure novel a comet is heading toward the Moon just in time for the long awaited opening of Moonbase where the Vice President of the United States is among the visiting dignitaries. When this comet hits it will destroy the Moon and the resulting debris will rain destruction on Earth. Gary K. Wolfe of Locus give this novel his equivalent of a thumbs up.
- McDonald, Ian. "Breakfast on the Moon, with Georges." In: Moon Shots. DAW, 1999.
- McEntire, Eddy N. A Blood Red Moon. PublishAmerica, 2002.
- From the publisher: "The near future has brought many changes to the world. A time of peace has led to a series of wars that have led to the world being divided into two superpowers. Joey Michaels and his fellow Marines are part of a force sent to the moon to try to stop a madman who is bent on world domination. The moon complex, which had been started during the time of peace, had been turned into the most effective weapon of mass destruction ever devised. Michaels and his Marines must battle not only the enemy and alien environment, but they must also overcome their own apathy and ignorance. A battle lost and unexpected discoveries lead Michaels and his Marines to places both physical and spiritual they've never been before. They discover a forgotten truth that keeps them fighting not only for their lives, but for something far more important."
Merritt, Abraham. The Moon Pool (Bison Frontiers of... Originally published by Avon Book Co., 1944.
An enigmatic force of monstrous terror powered by the full Moon roams the South Pacific seeking victims to kidnap.
One chapter of this novel concerns the ill-fated, fictitious Apollo 18 flight to the Moon.
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- Niven, Larry. "Inconstant Moon." In: The World Treasury of Science Fiction. Boston: Little Brown, 1989.
- Short story originally published in 1971. A bright Moon over LA suggests that the Sun has gone nova, and the Earth is doomed.
- Niven, Larry. The Patchwork Girl. Ace, 1980.
- A murder mystery which takes place on the Moon with Gil Hamilton as the sleuth.
- Niven, Larry. "The Woman In Del Rey Crater." In: Flatlander/the Collected Tales of Gil... Del Rey, 1995.
- Another Gil Hamilton tale.
- Niven, Larry. "Wrong Way Street" In: Convergent Series. Ballantine, 1979.
- Short story in which the protagonist travels through time, destroys the Moon, and wipes out life on Earth using an alien ship found on the Moon.
- Niven, Larry and Jerry Pournelle. "Spirals" In: Destinies, Date?.
- Set on a space station between the Earth and the Moon.
- Northrup, E. F (aka Akkad Psudoman) Zero to Eighty: Being My Lifetime Doings, Reflections, and Inventions Also My Journey Around the Moon. Princeton, NJ: Scientific Publishing Co, 1937
- A man goes around the Moon in a space ship propelled from Earth by electricity and rockets. In real life the author was the original inventor of induction heating and melting in 1916. He actually tested a coil gun in 1938 before his death in 1940. (Information provided by James Metcalf).
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- Oltion, Jerry. "The Moon Tree."In: Moon Shots. DAW, 1999.
- Onopa, Robert. "Name that Moon" In: Fantasy &Science Fiction, Jan. 2001.
- "A publicity campaign is staged by a failing lunar tourist industry to drum up business." From Locus March 2001.
- Osborne, Mary Pope. Midnight On The Moon (Magic Tree House.... Random House, 1996.
- Juvenile book for ages 4-8.
Illustrated by Sal Murdocca
Series: Magic Tree House 8
From the publisher: "Jack and Annie are whisked forty years forward in time and land at an international space station on the moon. There they don space suits and go exploring the lunar surface in search of the fourth object needed to free the enchantress Morgan le Fay from a powerful spell. "
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- Parks, Nick. A Grand Day Out BBC Video (CBS/Fox Video), 1995.
- This item is listed just for fun. It's not a novel or a short story. It is an animated film starring Wallace (a rather sweet, simple soul) and his dog Gromit (the brains of the outfit). One day Wallace, cheese lover extraordinaire, decides he wants to visit the moon and sample the green cheese it is made of. So Gromit hammers together a rocket and off they go. The accents are "veddy" British and the story line and dialog quite funny. The humor is grand enough that even American audiences can appreciate it.
- Pierce, Meredith Ann. The Darkangel (Pierce, Meredith Ann..... Boston: Little Brown, 1982 and Magic Carpet Books, 1998).
- Book 1 of The Darkangel Trilogy.
Paperback edition released by Magic Carpet Books, 1998.
This story is set on earth's Moon in a distant future where creatures like gargoyles, witches, and vampires have sprung from human bioengineering. A vampire has kidnapped a woman. Her young servant, Aerial, seeks to destroy him, but the vampire (also called the darkangel) is very beautiful and, Aerial discovers, not completely evil. - Pierce, Meredith Ann. A Gathering of Gargoyles (Darkangel.... Boston: Little Brown, 1984 and Magic Carpet Books, 1998.
- Book 2 of The DarkAngel Trilogy.
Paperback edition released by Magic Carpet Books, 1998.
From publisher: "Aeriel's love has broken the curse on the darkangel Irrylath, making him human again and freeing him from the control of his mother, the dreaded White Witch. But the Witch is far from defeated. Her wicked plans require all seven of her vampyre sons, and she will not give one up so easily." - Pierce, Meredith Ann. The Pearl of the Soul of the World.... Boston: Little Brown, 1990 and Magic Carpet Books, 1999.
- Book 3 of The Darkangel Trilogy.
Paperback edition released by Magic Carpet Books, 1999.
From the publisher: "With the aid of a shimmering pearl, Aeriel battles the White Witch to free her husband Irrylath and discover her own destiny." - Pizor, Faith K. comp. The Man in the Moon: An Anthology of Antique Science Fiction and Fantasy. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1971.
- Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
- Poe, Edgar Allan. Hans Pfaall.1840.
- Hans travels to the Moon in a balloon.
- Porges, Arthur. "Mulberry Moon." In: Fantastic c.1959.
- A rocket is launched and lands on the Moon. Cracks start appearing on the surface of the Moon and it begins to change shape. The narrator investigates, finds that a component of the stuff in the rocket was a chemical agent used to increase fertility in egg-laying animals. He concludes that the Moon is a gigantic egg, and that the chemical is causing it to hatch.
- Pournelle, Jerry. See Niven, Larry.
- Preuss, Paul. Maelstrom.New York : Avon Books, c1988.
- Reissued by Avon in 1992.
The second in a series of novels based on Clarke's short story Breaking Strain.
"From Venus to Earth to the Moon in pursuit of clues to Culture X, the action flows in the best traditions of suspense thriller." (Excerpted from a review by Dan Chow, Locus, Oct. 1988.)
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- "Recollections Of Six Days' Journey In The Moon. By An Aerio-Nautical Man." In: Southern Literary Messenger. 1844.
- Found in the July and August, 1844 issues.
A man who had travelled all over this world want desperately to go to the moon. Thanks to Mark Owings for information on this story. - Reed, Robert. "Waging Good." In: Isaac Asimov's Moons
- "Reed takes us to a lunar society that has fought and won a devastating war against the Earth, a war that has left the battered mother planet in ruins and its inhabitants on the verge of extinction. But the consequences of war often come home to roost, even for the victors."
- Robinson, Kim Stanley. "The Lunatics." In: Terry's Universe. Tor, 1988. This story also appears in Isaac Asimov's Moons NY: Ace, 1997
- "An eerie story which takes us deep inside the Moon for a brilliant tale of passion, politics, slavery, and transcendence."
- Rusch, Kristine Kathryn."Echea" In: Asimov's, July, 1998.
- "The time is some decades hence, after the Moon Wars have destroyed two colonies. A Wisconsin family, Sarah, her husband and daughters, decide to adopt a lunar child refugee, a seven-year-old girl named Echea..." From Locus review 8/98.
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- Scheer, K. H. Enterprise STARDUST. New York: Ace, 1969. (originally published in German by Mewig Pabel Verlag, 1961).
- This is the first in a series of novels featuring space adventurer Perry Rhodan.
A research ship of the Great Imperium of Arkon made an emergency landing on the earth's Moon. The crewmen, the terminally ill scientist Crest, and the beautiful Arkonid girl Thora, fight desperately for their lives. The once powerful people of the Arkonid are threatened by decadence and destruction. They had submitted their destiny long ago to a powerful robot regent. Perry Rhodan together with three friends on board STARDUST lands on the Moon, the predestined first contact between man and inhabitants of a foreign planet takes place. Unexpectedly Perry Rhodan comes into possession of the Arkonid super technology and hence bears the burden of a responsibility unparalleled by any man before him.
This information comes from Tommi Tolonen of Finland. - Scortia, Thomas N. Earthwreck! Fawcett Gold Medal, 1974.
- In 1988 the US and the Soviet Union have orbiting space stations with plans to colonize the Mars and the Moon. Then a nuclear war on Earth is triggered by an attack on Tel Aviv by joint Japanese-Arab terrorist. Now the Americans and Soviets on the space stations must colonize so that the human race will survive.
- Searls, Hank. The Pilgrim Project. [Pub.?] [1968?].
- NASA has an emergency plan to get to the Moon before the Russians. Filmed as Countdown.
- Shaw, Bob. The Ceres Solution New American Library 1984.
- The Moon features strongly in a dystopian near future where a handicapped protagonist discovers a conspiracy of interfering aliens.
- Sheckley, Robert."Visions of the Green Moon." In: Moon Shots. DAW, 1999
- Shelton, William Roy.Stowaway to the Moon; the Camelot Odyssey. Doubleday, 1976.
- A young boy stows away on a rocket ship headed for the Moon.
- Simak, Clifford D. The Trouble With Tycho (G K Hall Large.... 1961. Ace (reissue) 1983 and Thorndike Pr (Largeprint), August 2002.
- St. John, Philip (pseud of Lester Del Rey). Rocket Jockey. Philadelphia: Winston, 1952.
- Only four hours were left before the 18th Armstrong Classic would begin - the interplanetary race to the inhabited worlds and moons of the Solar System was named after the first man to land on the Moon. (Talk about predicting the future! Del Rey must have had a crystal ball to know about Armstrong.)
- Stableford, Brian. "Ashes and Tombstones." In: Moon Shots. DAW, 1999.
- Stapledon, Olaf. Last and First Men: a Story of the Near and Far Future.London, Methuen,[1930].
- The Fifth Men must destroy the Moon to stop it colliding with Earth.
- Steele, Allen. "John Harper Wilson."In: Asimov's Science Fiction. June, 1989. This story also appeared in Isaac Asimov's Moons. New York: Ace, 1997.
- "The author gives us a thought-provoking look at the first Moon landing... which may perhaps not be quit the way you remember it."
- Steele, Allen. Lunar Descent. Ace, 2001. Reissue of the 1991 novel.
- Skycorp is not treating its moon laborers well. Now, the "moondogs" are mad-and they're not going to take it anymore...
- Sterling, Bruce. Schismatrix Plus: Includes Schismatrix...New York: Arbor House, 1985.
- Reprinted by Ace as Schismatrix Plus: Includes Schismatrix and Selected Stories from Crystal Express.
From Amazon.com: "Bruce Sterling has called his Shaper/Mechanist novel Schismatrix my favorite among my books. It is a detailed history of a spacefaring humanity divided into two camps: The Shapers, who prefer genetic enhancements, and the Mechanists, who rely on prosthetics. Sterling also published five Shaper/Mechanist stories between 1982-84, which have been collected with the novel in this compendium volume. This book represents the definitive collection of what is arguably Sterling's most intense work, offering a hard, gritty look at humanity as it pushes and claws its way to the stars." - Sutton, Jeff. Apollo At Go. New York: Putnam, 1963.
- A novel about the first Apollo Moon landing.
- Sutton, Jeff. First on the Moon. 1958.
- A novel about the first US and USSR landing and conflict on the Moon.
- Swanwick, Michael. Griffin's Egg. St Martin's, 1992. Illustrated by Peter Gudynas.
- From Kirkus Reviews: "Gunther Weil is just an ordinary lunar engineer, until a nuclear exchange on Earth spreads conflict to the Moon. The sublunar factory town of Bootstrap is cut off, its inhabitants rendered psychotic through brain chemicals released into the air by a saboteur; only those wearing space suits escape."
- Swanwick, Michael. "Trojan Horse." In: Omni, Vol. 7: No. 3, December, 1984.
Reprinted in: Terry Carr, ed., The Best Science Fiction of the Year #14, NY: Tor Books, 1985. Gardner Dozois, ed., The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection, NY: Bluejay Books, 1985. Ellen Datlow, ed., The Seventh Omni Book of Science FictionNY: Zebra Books, 1989. - The story is set entirely on the moon.
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- Temple, William F. Shoot at the Moon. 1966.
- A novel of of love and mystery surrounding an expedition to the Moon.
- Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin. On the Moon.
- Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin. Beyond the Planet Earth. Translated from the Russian by Kenneth Syers. Oxford, New York, Pergamon Press, 1960.
- Tubb, E. C. Moon Base. Wildside Press, 2001.
- From the publisher: "Something flashed in the distance. Felix straightened, eyes narrowed behind the viewport as he searched the area. It had only been a brief twinkle of brilliance and for a moment he doubted whether he had seen anything at all. Then it came again, a sun bright sparkle as of light reflecting from some bright surface. It came from the far distance between Tycho and the station and, he knew, it could only have been caused by some moving object.. "
- Tucker, George 1775-1861. A Voyage to the Moon. Boston: Gregg Press, 1975.
- With a new preface by David G. Hartwell. Reprint of the 1827 edition published by E. Bliss.
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- Van Vogt, A. E. "Defence" In: Destination Universe.
- Short story where the first landing on the Moon triggers an ancient automatic defense system that destroys the Earth.
- Vance, Jack.Vandals of the Void.Philadelphia: Winston, 1953.
- A boy raised on Luna and befriended by a prospector has to deal with space pirates operating from a hidden base. [Juvenile].
- Varley, John H. "Bagatelle." In: Eight Worlds, John H. Varley.
- Varley, John H."The Barbie Murders." In: Eight Worlds, John H. Varley.
- Varley, John H. The Ophiuchi Hotline. New York: Dial Press, 1977.
- Humans have been displaced from their homeland on Earth by alien invaders. Now human colonies survive on the Moon and other planets with their biotech knowledge enhanced by strange messages from beyond the solar system. These messages are transmitted from a mysterious source known as the Ophiuchi Hotline.
- Varley, John H. "Picnic On Nearside." In: Eight Worlds, John H. Varley.
- A teenager celebrating his first sex change takes her best friend to the side of Luna facing Earth, where no one goes because of the painful memories.
- Varley, John H. Steel Beach. New York: Putnam, 1992.
- The Eden-like Lunar colony that has become humankind's home since an alien attack had destroyed Earth, Luna is threatened by dark forces that lead reporter Hildy Johnson and other inhabitants to feelings of depression and suicide..
- Varley, John. "Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Delta." 1986.
- One of the Anna-Louise Bach stories set in New Dresden on the Moon. In this one, a quarantined space station in a lunar orbit is about to hit the lunar surface, but there is someone aboard that needs rescuing. Maybe.
- Verne Jules. From the Earth to the Moon. 1865. Reprinted by Quiet Vision, Nov. 2001
- From the cover; "Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts. Jules Verne's prophetic novel of man’s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen."
- Vukcevich, Ray. "White Guys In Space." In: F&SF, Aug., 1996.
- Locus calls this a hilarious sendup of SF cliche's both broad and subtle. Lobster-men from Alpha Centauri head for Earth while two boys, Joe and Frank, take off for the Moon in a homemade spaceship with wise Dr. Tim, and their girl pal, Nancy.
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- Weber, David. Mutineer's Moon. Riverdale, N.Y. : Baen Books; Distributed by Simon & Schuster, 1991 and Baen, reissue, 1994.
- On a training mission Lt. Commander Colin MacIntyre discovers that the Moon is actually a giant starship controlled by an intelligence called Dahak. The starship began its orbit of Earth in the midst of a mutiny and the mutineers are still on our planet! Good adventure story.
- Weber, David. The Armageddon Inheritance. Baen, reissue, 1994. Sequel to Mutineer's Moon.
- From the back cover: Colin MacIntyre's life as a NASA astronaut might not have been exciting, but at least it was orderly. Unfortunately, he's been tapped for greater things, and he isn't too sure he likes it. First he was kidnapped by an ancient, self-aware starship masquerading as Earth's moon. Then he was drafted as its captain to suppress a five-thousand-year old mutiny. And then he had to mobilize the planet against the attack of an eons-old aliens-old alien menace dedicated to the eradication of all intelligent life in the galaxy...
- Weber, David. Heirs of Empire. Pocket Book, reissue, 1999.
- Sequel to The Armageddon Inheritance.
- Wells, Herbert George. The First Men in the Moon. London: G. Newnes, 1901.
- Recent edition published by Everyman Paperback Classics.
The story depicts a Lunar voyage powered by an antigravity device. - Wells, Herbert George and Leon Stover. The First Men in the Moon : A Critical.... McFarland, 1998.
- Critical edition with introduction, annotations, and appendices by Leon Stover.
- West, Michelle."Elegy." In: Moon Shots. DAW, 1999.
- Whittington, Mark R. Children of Apollo. Xlibris, 2002.
- From the publisher: "July 20, 1969. Apollo 11 has landed men on the Moon, fulfilling the great dream of generations. It was to be the start of a new, glorious age of space exploration that would take humanity to the planets and ultimately to the stars. But just three years later the great dream was over and the last men to explore the Moon returned to Earth. Thirty years later no one has been back. The hope of space settlements and expeditions to the planets was deferred, perhaps for a generation, perhaps forever. But what if history had taken a different path? Children of Apollo tells the story of a space age that never was, but could have been."
- Williams, David J.The Mirrored Heavens
. Bantam Spectra, 2008.
- One of the three plot-threads is set upon the Moon; the one-liner on that thread is - A secret agent must track down a legendary assassin in the wastelands around the Lunar south pole.
- Williamson, Jack. The Moon Era. 1932.
- A man testing an antigravity space drive travels back in time to when the Moon was habitable - and inhabited.
- Williamson, Jack. Terraforming Earth. Tor, 2001.
- An asteroid hits the Earth. Humankind is reduced to 8 survivors on a Lunar colony. They plan to rebuild the Earth.
- Williamson, Jack. The Legion of Space.
- The Moon is accidentally destroyed by aka, the ultimate weapon that destroys the invaders from Bernard's star.
- Williamson, Jack. See also listing under Breuer, Miles J., co-author.
- Wilson, Colin. The Mind Parasites. Oneiric Press, 1990.
- Disembodied minds inhabit the Moon, and some humans as well.
- Wolfe, Gene. "Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon?" In: Moon Shots. DAW, 1999.
- Wollheim, Donald, A. Men on the Moon.
- Anthology.
- Wyndham, John. The Last Lunarians.
- An archeological expedition to the Moon discovers some of the ancient inhabitants in suspended animation.
- Wyndham, John. "The Red Stuff"In: Marvel Science Stories,1951 and Sphere Books, 1977.
- A Lunar base is quarantined after been accidentally contaminated by a mysterious red stuff that had been brought back from the asteroid belt.....
- Wyndham, John. The Outward Urge.. London: M. Joseph, 1959
- Several short stories about conquest of the Moon and space by Russian, American and British astronauts, followed by an apocalyptic war, Australia and Brazil in space, and space colonies declaring themselves independent.
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- Young, Larry, Charlie Adlard, and Matt Smith. Astronauts in Trouble : Live from the... AiT/Planet Lar, 1999.
- This is a graphic novel.
From Amazon.com: "Fifty years after Armstrong’s one small step, the world’s richest man claims the moon as his own personal property... and Channel Seven is there! This graphic novel shows hat happens when absolute power corrupts absolutely, when The Mob has nuclear first-strike capability, and when cows jump over the moon. Witty banter, one-sixth gravity derring-do, and an explosive finale from a tale that Sci-Fi Universe says has "a wide-eyed sense of wonder and a clear appreciation for adventure-based science fiction. "
- Vampire Readings. by Patricia Altner, Scarecrow Press, 1998 (Nov.). There are actually quite a few vampire novels and short stories with Science Fiction or Fantasy themes -even a few that have significant Moon sequences. See authors Lichtenberg and Pierce above.
- Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. (Covering missions 11-12). Editor Eric M. Jones says, "With the needs of lunar-base design engineers in mind - and with the interests of historians, space enthusiasts, and future lunar citizens in mind as well - ten of the moonwalking astronauts and I have prepared an annotated transcript of the communications recorded during their time on the lunar surface. " Audio and video clips from the missions are also part of the journals.
- Full Moon Fever. Space.com’s headquarters for eclipses, news and lunar lore.
- Launchdate Moonpage Links to many sites about our Moon including The Moon in Science Fiction.
- Lunar Prospector. "The NASA/Ames Research Center invites you to participate in the day-to-day events surrounding the first NASA Moon mission in 25 years! Using this web site, you can find out whatever you need to know about this historic mission as well as follow Prospector in its incredible search for water ice on the lunar surface. To help guide you through this fascinating journey, we have included the world's largest source of information - past and present - about the Moon."
- Lunar Links. Links to pages about the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies.
- The Moon. A Web page from the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC). The Center is the deep archive for NASA planetary and Lunar data in digital, document, and photographic formats.
- Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon. The Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon by Bowker and Hughes (NASA SP-206) is considered the definitive reference manual to the global photographic coverage of the Moon.
- Moon Handbook: A 21st-Century Travel Guide. An imaginative tour of the Moon.
- The Moon Society. A non-profit educational and scientific foundation formed to further scientific study and development of the Moon.
- TransOrbital. "TransOrbital, Inc. is a private company dedicated to the commercial development of space. We are on track to be the first commercial mission to the moon and currently have three Lunar launch projects in progress."
- Quantum Muse. Posting the finest in science fiction, fantasy and alternative writing and artwork. For free. In our sober moments...
- SciFan Books and links for the Science Fiction fan.
- Science Fiction Resource Guide
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