Moon in science fiction
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The Moon has appeared in fiction as a setting since at least classical antiquity. Throughout most of literary history, a significant portion of works depicting lunar voyages has been satirical in natu
A still image of the Man in the Moon from the 1902 film Le voyage dans la lune
Life on the Moon as depicted in the "Great Moon Hoax"
The success of Apollo 11 marked the end of science fiction stories about the first Moon landing.
A lunar base as envisaged by NASA
Great Moon Hoax
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The "Great Moon Hoax", also known as the "Great Moon Hoax of 1835", was a series of six articles published in New York newspaper The Sun, beginning on August 25, 1835, about the supposed discovery of
Moon in science fiction
…1705 novel The Consolidator, Edgar Allan Poe's 1835 short story "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall", the 1835 newspaper series called the "Great Moon Hoax" by Richard Adams Locke, Jules Verne's 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon, and H. G. Wells' 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon. George Griffith's…
A lithograph of the hoax's "ruby amphitheater", as printed in The Sun
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Great Moon Hoax, Edinburgh Journal of Science, by Lilith de Thierry Freres