![]() ![]() ![]() Three octavo issues in original wraps, one three quarter leather bound (Volume XXV, January-June 1870) pp. The Brick Moon is here presented in its original issues, with "Life on the Brick Moon" bound in with the January-June, 1870 issues. The Brick Moon originally appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in three parts (October, November and December) with the sequel, "Life on the Brick Moon", appearing two months later. Originally intended as a navigation aid, the sphere is accidentally launched with people aboard. Narrated by a fictional scientist and presented as a journal, the novella describes the construction and launch into orbit of a sphere, 200 feet in diameter and built of bricks. ![]() It also contains the first known depiction of an artificial satellite and was hailed by Wernher von Braun and Frederick Ordway as the first fictional proposal for a manned space station. First appearance of Hale's speculative novella that was one of the earliest American science fiction stories of space travel by mechanical (as opposed to mystical or supernatural) means. ![]()
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