Moon in fiction

Moon in fiction
This article is about the Moon as the subject of and inspiration for creative works. For the Moon in mythology and religion, see Moon (mythology).
The moon on the coat of arms of Grabow, Germany.

The Moon has been the subject of many works of art and literature and the inspiration for countless others. It is a motif in the visual arts, the performing arts, poetry, prose and music.

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Art and popular culture

Literary

  • John Heywood's Proverbes (1546) commented that "The moon is made of a greene cheese", "greene" meaning "not aged", but was probably being sarcastic. [1]
  • One of the earliest fictional flights to the Moon took place on the pages of Ludovico Ariosto's well-known Italian romantic epic "Orlando furioso" (1516). The protagonist Orlando, having been thwarted in love, goes mad with despair and rampages through Europe and Africa, destroying everything in his path. The English knight Astolfo, seeking to find a cure for Orlando's madness, flies up to the Moon in Elijah's flaming chariot. In this depiction, the Moon is where everything lost on earth is to be found, including Orlando's wits, and Astolfo brings them back in a bottle and makes Orlando sniff them, thus restoring him to sanity.
  • In the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, a newspaper reporter concocted a series of stories purporting to describe the discovery of life on the Moon, talking of such creatures as winged humanoids and goats.
  • Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien was written in 1925 to console his son Michael, then four years old, for the loss of a beloved toy dog. In the story, the dog has flown to the Moon and had a whole series of amusing adventures there. The story was only published posthumously. In addition, Isil and the guidesman Tilion in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth cosmology are based in Tolkien's familiarity with Norse and Gaelic myths of the moon.
  • Doctor Dolittle in the Moon (1928) was intended to be the last of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books. The Doctor, with his unique ability to communicate with animals, arrived in the Moon on the back of a giant moth and finds a considerably different kind of fauna (for example, Moon insects are far bigger than the local birds), and more startlingly, intelligent plants whose language he learns (as he never did with earthly plants). He also meets the Moon's single human inhabitant, a prehistoric man who has grown into an enormous giant due to lunar foods and conditions (which soon happens to the doctor himself). But it is doubtful whether he would ever be allowed to return to Earth.
  • In C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, the Moon (Sulva) is described as being home to a race of extreme eugenicists. On the near side, the elite caste seems to have dispensed with organic existence altogether, by some means never clearly described; the only holdouts against this trend are an embattled minority on the far side. The response of the characters to this state of affairs varies according to their status: Professor Filostrato, of the wicked N.I.C.E., considers the Sulvans "[a] great race, further advanced than we", while the Christian champion Elwin Ransom describes them as "an accursed people, full of pride and lust".
  • Goodnight Moon (1947) by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd.
  • Winter Moon, a poem by Langston Hughes.
  • Moon Palace (1989) by Paul Auster, one of his best-known and most complicated novels.
  • Kidnapping of the Moon, a novel of Georgian author, Konstantine Gamsakhurdia.
  • l'Ennui de la Lune, a short story by Edward Desautels in which the Moon appears as ostensible first-person narrator, [2].

Theatre

  • The End of the Moon by Laurie Anderson is a 90-minute monologue created as part of Anderson's two years as NASA artist-in-residence. It premiered in a two-week run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater in March 2005.
  • Far Side of the Moon by Robert Lepage, a theatre creator/performer from Québec.

Cinema

Excepting its representation in films that are principally science fiction (see below), the depiction of The Moon is a significant element of the following films.

Music

Classical

  • The Moonlight Sonata (1801) by Ludwig van Beethoven is probably the most widely recognised classical piece commonly called by a lunar title, but the composer never connected it with the moon. The name by which the piece is commonly known is due to the critic Ludwig Rellstab's comparing the piece to the effect of moonlight on Lake Lucerne, several years after its composition.
  • Clair de Lune ("Moonlight") by Debussy approaches the fame of the Moonlight Sonata. Debussy also wrote The Terrace for Moonlight.
  • Song to the Moon appears in Antonín Dvořák's opera Rusalka (1900).
  • An den Mond in einer Herbstnacht D.614, and several settings of An den Mond are among Franz Schubert's Lieder set poems with lunar subjects.
  • Pierrot Lunaire, a modernist work by Arnold Schoenberg, treats the subject of a moon-struck Pierrot.
  • Imagined Oceans, a work for voices and instruments by Karl Jenkins, deals with the various imagined seas of the moon
  • Less widely known works include

Jazz

Many jazz standards have been inspired by the moon, some of the most notable examples are:

The Moon takes on several roles in the lyrics of these songs. In songs such as "Blue Moon", "No Moon at All", "Moonlight Serenade" and "Moonlight in Vermont", the Moon 'frames' or creates the atmosphere of romance that the protagonist finds themselves in.

The Moon is also viewed as an unobtainable object in songs such as "Reaching for the Moon", "I Wished on the Moon" and "Oh, You Crazy Moon", once again mirroring the situation of the protagonist.

Frank Sinatra recorded an entire album of songs written about the moon called Moonlight Sinatra, recalling the name of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Six years earlier, Mel Tormé recorded Swingin' On the Moon, in a similar concept.

Pop and rock

Metal

Other

  • A Grand Day Out, a Wallace & Gromit short film, involves the main characters taking a day trip to the moon in a rocket that Wallace built. In the film, the moon is made of green cheese and is inhabited by what looks like an oven on skis.
  • the Clangers a popular animated series tells of the lives of pink sock-puppet mice living on a moon that looks very similar to our own.
  • Many cartoons have depicted the moon as being made of cheese.

Science fiction

Literature

Early stories

Lucian's Icaromenippus and True History, written in the second century AD, deal with imaginary voyages to the moon such as on a fountain after going past the Pillars of Hercules. The theme did not become popular until the seventeenth century, however, when the invention of the telescope hastened the popular acceptance of the concept of "a world in the Moon", that is, that the Moon was an inhabitable planet, which might be reached via some sort of aërial carriage. The concept of another world, close to our own and capable of looking down at it from a distance, provided ample scope for satirical comments on the manners of the Earthly world. Among the early stories dealing with this concept are:

First voyage

The first flight to the Moon was a popular topic of science fiction before the actual landing in 1969.

  • From the Earth to the Moon (1865) by Jules Verne in which a projectile is launched from Florida and lands in the Pacific Ocean, not unlike the Apollo Program.
  • The First Men in The Moon (1901) by H. G. Wells in which a spaceship gets to the moon with the aid of Cavorite -a material which shields out gravity. It is inhabitated by insect-like Selenites who are ruled by a Grand Lunar, and who prevent Cavor from returning to Earth after learning of humanity's warlike nature.
  • Na srebrnym globie [The Silver Globe] (1903), by Polish writer Jerzy Żuławski in which a first expedition from Earth gives birth to a lunar society. The story was continued in Zwycięzca [The Conqueror] (1910) and Stara Ziemia [The Old Earth] (1911). This so-called Lunar Trilogy was the first modern Polish SF story. It was adapted to the screen as On the Silver Globe by Andrzej Żuławski.
  • Trends is a 1939 short story by Isaac Asimov in which religious fanatics oppose a fictional first flight to the Moon in the 1970s.
  • Prelude to Space is a 1951 novel by Arthur C. Clarke recounting the events leading up to a fictional first flight to the Moon in 1978.

Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein wrote extensively, prolifically, and inter-connectedly about first voyages and colonization of the Moon, which he most often called Luna.[2] He also was involved with the films Destination Moon and Project Moonbase.

  • "Requiem" 1940. A lyrical story about Harriman, the man who financed the first Moon landing (see also "The Man Who Sold the Moon", below).
  • Rocket Ship Galileo 1947. A physicist and several prodigy teenagers convert a sub-orbital rocket ship to reach the moon where they are profoundly surprised and have to act quickly to deal with a malignant menace.
  • "Columbus Was a Dope", as Lyle Monroe, 1947. In a bar on the Moon, a chance encounter reveals both deep and practical attitudes about space exploration.
  • "The Long Watch" (aka "Rebellion on the Moon", 1948). An officer in charge of a nuclear arsenal on the Moon makes tough decisions.
  • "Gentlemen, Be Seated!", 1948. A dangerous leak develops in a lunar tunnel and the men devise a unique way to deal with it until a repair can be made.
  • "The Black Pits of Luna", 1948. A Boy Scout visits cities on the Moon.
  • "The Man Who Sold the Moon", a 1949 short story, first published in 1951. In this story, a prequel to "Requiem" (above), events revolve around a fictional first Moon landing in 1978.
  • "Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon", 1949.
  • The Rolling Stones 1952. The exceptional Stone family lives on the moon and after extensive background and preparation of their own ship they depart to tour and live in the Solar System.
  • "The Menace From Earth", 1957. A lunar teenage girl's romance is disrupted by a newcomer. Extensive descriptions, most noteworthy is the muscle-power flying in a huge sealed cavern.
  • "Searchlight", 1962. A short-short piece about a rescue on the Moon.
  • The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966). In this Hugo Award winning novel, the moon is a penal colony, especially for political prisoners and their descendants. They revolt for independence from Earth-based control. The novel discusses issues of sustainability, health, transportation, family organization, artificial intelligence, and political governance.
  • The Cat Who Walks Through Walls 1985. About a third of the book takes place on a Free Luna that is a continuation of the Luna in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (TMiaHM above). Free-enterprise is rampant Luna City is called L-City. Hazel Stone from The Rolling Stones and TMiaHM appears.
  • In passing:

Colonization

Human settlements on the Moon are found in many science fiction novels, short stories and films. Not all have the Moon colony itself as central to the plot.

  • Lost Paradise (1936) by C. L. Moore. This Northwest Smith story tells how the once-fertile Moon became an airless wasteland.
  • Earthlight (1955) by Arthur C. Clarke. A settlement on the Moon becomes caught in the crossfire of a war between Earth and a federation of Mars and Venus.
  • The Trouble With Tycho (1960) by Clifford D. Simak. A young lunar prospector seeks to find a lost expedition to the Moon.
  • A Fall of Moondust (1961) by Arthur C. Clarke. A lunar dust boat full of tourists sinks into a sea of Moon dust.
  • The Matthew Looney series of children's books by Jerome Beatty Jr (written 1961 - 1978) is an amusing set of stories about an inhabited Moon whose government is intent on invading the Earth.
  • The Lathe of Heaven (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin. In one of the alternate realities in the novel lunar bases are established by 2002, only to be attacked by aliens from Aldebaran (who in another reality turn out to be benign).
  • The Gods Themselves (1973) by Isaac Asimov. The third section of the novel takes place in a Lunar settlement in the year 2100.
  • Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels (1974) by George R. R. Martin. This story takes place on Earth, devastated by nuclear war 500 years earlier and being explored by descendants of a small remnant of humanity that survived on a lunar colony.
  • Inherit the Stars (1977) by James P. Hogan is the first book of the Minervan Experiment series. The Moon turns out to have previously orbited Minerva, a planet that exploded to form the asteroid belt 50,000 years ago.
  • Welcome to Moonbase (1987) by Ben Bova. A fictional history of a potential moonbase. ISBN 0-345-32859-0.
  • Lunar Descent by Allen Steele (1991) Set in 2024, the novel describes a base called Descartes Station.
  • Assemblers of Infinity (1993) by Kevin Anderson and Doug Beason. A lunar base and a mysterious structure are assembled on the far side of the Moon by tiny machines. ISBN 0-553-29921-2.
  • De Maan (1993) by Carl Koppeschaar (translated into English as Moon Handbook: A 21st-Century Travel Guide). A Dutch "travel guide" to the Moon. ISBN 1-56691-066-8.
  • Transmigration of Souls (1996) by William Barton. An expedition from a moon base discovers an alien base with technology that allows teleportation and time travel. ISBN 0-446-60167-5.
  • Ice (2002) by Shane Johnson. A fictional Apollo 19 mission takes a disastrous turn when the LM ascent engine fails to fire. The astronauts then set out on their own as far as their new heavy lunar rover will take them. Their exploration leads miraculously to an ancient—but still functioning—lunar base.
  • People Came From Earth by Stephen Baxter, printed in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection.
  • In the novels A Fall of Moondust, Earthlight, Rendezvous with Rama, and 2001: A Space Odyssey,by Arthur C. Clarke, colonies of various sizes and functions exist on the moon—some the size of cities
  • The Moonrise and Moonwar books by Ben Bova tell the story of a lunar base built by an American corporation, which eventually rebels against Earth control. The books form part of the "Grand Tour" series.
  • Moonfall by Jack McDevitt features a comet heading for a collision with the Moon just as the first base is being opened. ISBN 0-06-105036-9.
  • Byrd Land Six by Alastair Reynolds includes a Moon colony centered around mining helium 3.
  • In the Hyperion stories by Dan Simmons, the Moon is one of several hundred colonized celestial bodies; however, it is left almost entirely abandoned as 99% of the existing colonized planets are preferable to the moon.
  • Life As We Knew It (2006) by Susan Beth Pfeffer, a novel focusing on the effects of an asteroid colliding with the Moon and knocking its orbit closer to Earth.

Film

  • Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902) written and directed by Georges Méliès. Released in the US as "A Trip to the Moon". A French silent film loosely based upon the Jules Verne novel From the Earth to the Moon and the First Men in the Moon. Includes a famous scene where the rocket hits the Man of the Moon in the Eye.
  • Frau im Mond ("Woman in the Moon", 1929), written and directed by Fritz Lang. Based on the novel Die Frau im Mond (1928) by Lang's then-wife and collaborator Thea von Harbou, translated in English as The Rocket to the Moon (1930). The film was released in the USA as By Rocket to the Moon, and in the UK as Woman in the Moon. A silent movie often considered to be one of the first "serious" science fiction films, in which the basics of rocket travel were presented to a mass audience for the first time.
  • Destination Moon (1950) was a groundbreaking science fiction film, based on a story treatment by Robert A. Heinlein and directed by George Pal.
  • Project Moonbase (1953). A failed television pilot converted into a film.
  • First Men in the Moon (1964) is a science fiction film loosely based on H. G. Wells' novel The First Men in the Moon.
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. Includes a scene at a lunar administrative base in the Clavius crater.
  • Moon Zero Two (1969). Billed as a 'space western', this Hammer Films production followed shortly after 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the year 2021 the moon is in the process of being colonized, and this new frontier is attracting a diverse group of people.
  • Star Trek: First Contact (1996). By the 24th century there were approximately 50 million people living on the moon, and on a clear day, at least two cities and man-made Lake Armstrong were visible from Earth - as such, time-traveler William Riker, sitting in the cockpit of the first warp prototype, marvels at the sight of the "unspoiled" moon in 2063.
  • Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999). Dr. Evil attempts to destroy Washington D.C. with a giant laser from his moon base, but Austin Powers is able to stop him.
  • The Time Machine (2002). The moon is destroyed by human efforts at colonization in 2037. The film is not specific as to how exactly it occurs, but the use of nuclear weapons for creating underground caverns is cited as a cause. The destruction causes humanity to divide into Morlocks and Eloi.
  • Moon (2009) Film about a solitary lunar employee mining for new energy resources who experiences a personal crisis as the end of his three-year contract nears. It is the feature debut of director Duncan Jones starring Sam Rockwell.
  • Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) The Apollo 11 mission to the Moon in 1969 turned out to be a top secret mission to examine the remains of an ancient Transformer Spacecraft containing deceased alien robots.
  • Apollo 18 (2011) follows a fictional Apollo 18 mission and its discovery on the Moon.

Television

  • Several episodes of the long-running British television series Doctor Who feature the Moon:
    • The Moonbase (1967). A four-part serial set in the year 2070, where a moonbase has been established to use a gravity-control device called the “Gravitron” to control the weather on Earth.
    • The Seeds of Death (1969). A base on the Moon is used as a relay station for T-Mat a powerful teleportation technology that has replaced all conventional forms of transport.
    • Silver Nemesis (1988). The Cybermen's Cyber-Fleet is in orbit around the moon when it is destroyed by the Nemesis statue.
    • Frontier in Space (1973). Features a penal colony on the Moon in the year 2540.
    • Smith and Jones (2007). The Judoon take London Hope Hospital to the moon as they have no rights over the Earth to arrest a Plasmavore.
  • Moonbase 3 (1973). Another British science fiction television show about a lunar base; aired only six episodes.
  • Two Gerry Anderson series featured moonbases:
    • UFO (1970). A moonbase is used as the launch site for interceptor spacecraft sent to destroy invading alien spaceships.
    • Space: 1999 (ITC Entertainment, 1975–1977). Featured "Moonbase Alpha" on a Moon that had been blasted out of its orbit by a nuclear explosion at phenomenal velocity. The opening episode indicates that the base coordinated nuclear waste disposal, spaceflight operations and training, and subsequent episodes suggest mining, surface surveys and exploration, indicating a versatile base for multiple use, overseen by an international organization on Earth, the "International Lunar Commission".
  • Star Cops (1987). The titular police force has its base of operations on the Moon.
  • Colonization of the Moon is mentioned several times in the Star Trek franchise.
    • Star Trek: Enterprise. The Moon has already been colonized in this series.
    • The Next Generation. The character Dr. Beverly Crusher was born in Copernicus City on the surface of the moon.
    • Deep Space Nine mentions settlements on the Moon called Tycho City, New Berlin, and Lunaport. It is also revealed that Earth's moon is referred to by its Latin name, Luna, probably to distinguish it from the thousands of moons throughout the universe. It is also revealed that living on the moon is seen by many humans as something of a novelty, as Jake Sisko uses the slang term Lunar schooner somewhat affectionately when he meets a girl from there.
  • The 1991 television movie Plymouth was about a fictional Maine town whose populace became the inhabitants of the first lunar colony. Astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad played himself in a cameo.

Animation

  • Sailor Moon. In this Japanese anime series, the Moon was once home to the Silver Millennium (Moon Kingdom in the dub). Eventually conflict destroyed the Kingdom and caused the Moon to take its current form. Usagi Tsukino (Serena in the dub) is a play on words for Moon Rabbit, the translation for "tsuki no usagi" in Japanese.
  • In the manga and anme series Naruto, the primary antagonist Madara Uchiha's goal, known as the "Eye of the Moon Plan", involves casting an illusion on the moon, allowing him to gain dominance over everyone in the world. According to the series' mythology, the moon was created when the originator of ninjutsu imprisoned the body of a powerful demon within it.
  • Planetes (2003). A Japanese anime TV series set at a time when travel to the Moon has become an everyday occurrence.
  • Mobile Suit Gundam. Throughout most of this anime saga, the Moon has been extensively colonised, with underground cities built inside of the larger craters.
  • Exosquad. In this American military science fiction series, the Moon is the site of the fiercest battle between Terran and Neosapien forces. The victory achieved by the Terrans on the Moon soon leads to the liberation of Earth.
  • Futurama. By the year 3000, a theme park has been constructed on the moon inside a giant dome with an artificial atmosphere, and an artificial gravity.
  • Megas XLR. on one episode the Glorft attempt to convert the moon into a Missile. Coop also ends up Blowing half the moon up. (in the credits he's seen putting the moon back together)
  • Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Among the recurring characters are The Mooninites, which hail from the moon.
  • Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. The moon is used by the Anti-Spirals as the "Human Extermination System", and is designed to fall on the Earth once a million humans live on the surface. It is later discovered that the moon is actually one of Lord Genome's battleships.
  • Origin: Spirits of the Past. An anime movie set in Japan 300 years in the future. An apocalypse was brought about by extensive genetic engineering on trees, conducted at a research facility on Earth's moon, in order to produce trees capable of growing in harsh, arid conditions. The trees became conscious and spread to Earth in a fiery holocaust, wiping out most of modern civilization and fragmenting the moon.
  • The Tick. Supervillain Chairface Chippendale attempts to create the ultimate act of vandalism by writing his name on the moon's surface with a powerful laser. He is only able to write "CHA" before being thwarted by The Tick. Some time later a mission to the moon is mounted with the intent of repairing this damage. The Tick is given a backpack full of explosives and told to wait in the carved-out "C". When the backpack explodes, The Tick is hurled out of the Solar System, but the "C" is repaired, leaving "HA" still visible from Earth.
  • In Despicable Me the world’s #1 super villain, Gru, decides to steal the moon in an attempt to prove himself better than his arch-rival (#1 super villain), Vector.
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender: In this Nickelodeon cartoon series the Moon is a major part of the lore and spirituality of the Water Tribes. According to legend the first waterbenders learned how to bend water by watching the moon push and pull the water and were eventually able to do so themselves.
  • In Space Jam, Mr. Swackhammer, the villain of the film gets sent there at the end of the game by the Monstars.
  • In Transformers: Armada, The Mini-Con ship Exodus crash-landed on the Moon, scattering its stasis-locked passengers all over Earth. Later, the Decepticons would set up a base inside the derelict ship, from where they would teleport to various locations on Earth to search for the Mini-Cons.

Computer and video games

  • Call of Duty Black Ops - The moon is one of the maps available through the Rezurection map pack.
  • Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge - In one of Soviet Campaign missions, the general was assigned to establish his base there in order to destroy Yuri's Lunar Command Center to prevent the Earth from falling under his psychic mind control.
  • Darius II - The moon is inhabited by enemy forces and underground bases players must confront on the fourth level.
  • Dead Moon - Aliens crash land on the moon and use it as their headquarters for invading Earth.
  • Descent – the main character (the Material Defender) has to clean the Solar System of infected PTMC mines, starting from the moon. Consequently, the first three levels of the game take place in an outpost, a sci-lab, and a military base on the moon.
  • Destroy All Humans! 2 - The final area of the game takes place on a Russian moon base called "Solaris".
  • Donkey Kong Country Returns - After the final boss, Donkey Kong is blasted into space, as he falls, he powers up a punch and punches the moon, causing to fall on the Volcano.
  • Duke Nukem 3D - The second episode of the game, Lunar Apocalypse, takes place on a series of space stations that lead to the moon's surface.
  • Final Fantasy IV/II (U.S SNES version)- in the last part of the game the characters travel to the moon to confront the final boss.
  • Infinite Undiscovery - The main antagonist has enchained the moon in order to gain its power.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - Link, the protagonist, must prevent the moon from crashing to Earth within 3 days.
  • Mass Effect - One of the sidemissions is set on the Moon.
  • Metal Black (video game) - After a massive alien invasion on Earth, the moon is overtaken by the aliens so as to involve it in their plot and its darkside sets the scene for the second level boss fight.
  • Military Madness – moon colonization wars exist between the Union and Xenon.
  • Moonbase – add-on for SimCity Classic to build a lunar colony rather than an earthbound city.
  • Moonbase Commander
  • Moon Patrol (Irem)
  • Moon Tycoon - A colony building game, Claims to be the first 3-D Sim game ever.
  • Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - Mario must journey to the moon to recover a Crystal Star.
  • Portal 2 - Chell, having learned that moon rocks are very good portal conductors, fires a portal at the moon to save herself from death.
  • Star Control 2 – features a now uninhabited moon base.
  • Star Ocean: Till the End of Time – features a moonbase.
  • Sonic Adventure 2 - Dr. Robotnik destroyed half the moon with the eclipse cannon.
  • Strikers 1945 - In the original Japanese release of the game, players are rocketed towards the enemy's real headquarters situated on the moon's surface for the last two levels.
  • Terra Diver - In the future, the moon is one of many points of galactic resources utilised by companies on Earth and hosts a company owned outpost stationed on a nearby asteroid where the fourth boss awaits.
  • Tsukihime - Of the five 'paths' that the storyline may progress in, two are categorized as 'near side of the moon' paths and the remaining three unlockable ones as the 'far side of the moon' paths.
  • Touhou Project - In Imperishable Night, the two characters selected by the player must defeat Eirin Yagokoro and Kaguya Houraisan, two immortals from the moon, who have replaced the real moon with a fake one.

Comics

  • In the DC Universe, the Moon is the location of the Justice League Watchtower until its destruction by Alexander Luthor and also a former home of Eclipso.
  • In an early Ibis the Invincible story the Moon has members of a humanoid race composed of stone that competed with humanity over the Earth and were exiled to the Moon thousands of years ago where they are frozen. A Professor makes a rocket ship to go to the Moon with Taia, and Ibis follows them. Two of the creatures are take on the ship, and revive on a journey back to Earth, but are killed when the spaceship crashes.
  • In the Marvel Universe, the Moon contains the Blue Area, the home of the Inhumans. It was built by the Skrull race, in events which led to their Inter-galactic war with the Kree race. The powerful Watcher, Uatu, watches the Solar System from a base on the Moon. In FF #13 the Fantastic Four make the first landing on the Moon (this was published before 1969), and battle the communist villain the Red Ghost and his Super-apes.
  • In Judge Dredd the moon is the site of a small colony named Luna City One.
  • In Hergé's Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon, Tintin and his companions make the first voyage to the moon and Tintin becomes the first Explorer on the Moon.
  • In Issue 11 of Weird Science, the Moon is privately owned and colonised by The Uranium-Development Corporation.

See also

References

External links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Bennett, Maurice J. (1983). "Edgar Allan Poe and the Literary Tradition of Lunar Speculation". Science Fiction Studies 10 (2): 137–47. 
  2. ^ Cowan, M. E. (2007). "Heinlein Concordance". Venice, California: The Heinlein Society. http://www.heinleinsociety.org/concordance/L_HC.htm#luna. Retrieved 2010-09-11. "Luna[:] Name used for the moon, as colonized by humans, in most of Heinlein's novels and stories. Rarely do characters refer to 'the moon' if it's inhabited." 
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