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Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures
| Author: | Mike Ashley |
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British Library, 2018 |
| Series: | British Library Science Fiction Classics: Book 2 |
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1. Lost Mars |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
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 Greeks and Romans speculated about the Moon almost 2000 years before H.G. Wells or Jules Verne wrote about it, but interest peaked from the late 1800s, when the prospect of lunar travel became more viable. This anthology presents 11 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.
Contents:
- 7 - Introduction (Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures) - essay by Mike Ashley
- 31 - Dead Centre - novelette by Judith Merril (variant of Dead Center 1954)
- 67 - A Visit to the Moon - [Stories of Other Worlds - 1] - (1900) - short story by George Griffith
- 93 - Sunrise on the Moon - short fiction by John Munro (variant of Sun-Rise in the Moon 1894)
- 105 - First Men in the Moon (excerpt) - [Cavor] - short fiction by H. G. Wells
- 151 - Sub-Satellite - [Sub-Satellite - 1] - (1928) - short story by Charles Cloukey
- 175 - Lunar Lilliput - (1938) - novelette by William F. Temple
- 221 - Nothing Happens on the Moon - (1964) - short story by Paul Ernst (variant of "Nothing Happens on the Moon" 1939)
- 247 - Whatever Gods There Be - (1961) - short story by Gordon R. Dickson
- 269 - Idiot's Delight - [Troons] - (1958) - novelette by John Wyndham (variant of The Moon A.D. 2044)
- 317 - After a Judgement Day - (1963) - short story by Edmond Hamilton
- 335 - The Sentinel - [A Space Odyssey] - (1951) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
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