Mercury and Venus have no moons, although Leigh Brackett wrote a beautiful story about Venus, “The Moon That Vanished” (in Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1948). The Moon is not a balloon, neither is it composed of cheese, as in Wallace & Gromit’s A Grand Day Out(1989). Both thresholds had been fictionally crossed countless times before, although very few of the imaginings came anywhere close to the reality.

The Review: Neil Armstrong’s small step for all mankind proved just as much an extinction event for the first-man-on-the-moon sub-genre of Science Fiction, as Yuri Gagarin had earlier killed off the first-man-in-space equivalent. Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Exploration is the second volume in the British Library Science Fiction Classics series. This anthology presents twelve short stories from the most popular magazines of the golden age of SF including The Strand Magazine, Astounding Science Fiction and Amazing Stories and features classic SF writers as well as lesser-known writers for dedicated fans of the genre to discover. Wells or Jules Verne wrote about it, but interest peaked from the late 1800s when the prospect of lunar travel became more viable. The Greeks and Romans speculated about the Moon almost two thousand years before H.G. Before the Apollo 11 mission succeeded in landing on the Moon in 1969, writers and visionaries were fascinated by how we might get there and what we might find. The Book: Featuring twelve stories by a roster of classic SF authors including Arthur C. Publisher: British Library Science Fiction ClassicsĪpril 2018, ISBN 978-0-7123-5275-8, 352pp In Review: Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures Home › downthetubes News › Other Worlds › Books › In Review: Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures Comic Projects: The Really Heavy Greatcoat.

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