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<p class="story" align="center"><b>Sci-Fi Moon</b></p>
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<p class="story" align="left">Many scientists and engineers who worked on the Apollo project in the 1960s reported being inspired by science fiction  
  <p class="story" align="left">Many scientists and engineers who worked on the Apollo project in the 1960s reported being inspired by science fiction  
 
 
stories that they read as teenagers. This wonderful cover for a 1928 paperback (found a year or so ago on Ebay - don't  
 
stories that they read as teenagers. This wonderful cover for a 1928 paperback (found a year or so ago on Ebay - don't  
 
know who the buyer or seller were!) is the kind of space art (and text) that enchanted me some decades later. The cover  
 
know who the buyer or seller were!) is the kind of space art (and text) that enchanted me some decades later. The cover  
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cover is a simple, but relatively accurate, map of the Moon with actual lunar names correctly placed. Are young people  
 
cover is a simple, but relatively accurate, map of the Moon with actual lunar names correctly placed. Are young people  
 
stimulated by today's science fiction - or have our science accomplishments eliminated such imaginative dreaming?  
 
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[http://www.biblioinfo.com/moon/sf_moon.html The Moon in Science Fiction]<br>
 
[http://www.biblioinfo.com/moon/sf_moon.html The Moon in Science Fiction]<br>
 
[http://www.dvdjournal.com/quickreviews/f/firstmeninthemoon.q.shtml First Men in the Moon Movie] Review<br>
 
[http://www.dvdjournal.com/quickreviews/f/firstmeninthemoon.q.shtml First Men in the Moon Movie] Review<br>
 
[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1013 First Men in the Moon] online book</p>
 
[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1013 First Men in the Moon] online book</p>
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<p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[January 20, 2004|French Moon]] </p>
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<p><b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> [[January 22, 2004|Ring Around the Moon]] </p>
 
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[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Charles A. Wood]</p>
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          [mailto:chuck@observingthesky.org Charles A. Wood]</p>
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Sci-Fi Moon

LPOD-2004-01-21.jpeg

Image Credit: Ebay

Sci-Fi Moon

Many scientists and engineers who worked on the Apollo project in the 1960s reported being inspired by science fiction stories that they read as teenagers. This wonderful cover for a 1928 paperback (found a year or so ago on Ebay - don't know who the buyer or seller were!) is the kind of space art (and text) that enchanted me some decades later. The cover offers the enticement of a person (in a Spiderman-tight space suit?) amidst the craters and crags of the Moon. The back cover is a simple, but relatively accurate, map of the Moon with actual lunar names correctly placed. Are young people stimulated by today's science fiction - or have our science accomplishments eliminated such imaginative dreaming?

Related Links:
The Moon in Science Fiction
First Men in the Moon Movie Review
First Men in the Moon online book

Yesterday's LPOD: French Moon

Tomorrow's LPOD: Ring Around the Moon


Author & Editor:
Charles A. Wood

 


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