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Sometime in the 1960s I read a paperback SF novel with one or more Earthmen on the Moon. There was a nonhuman Moon civilization living underground. It may have been a dystopian society and water was very rare and precious.

And that is about all I remember. It was an old science fiction novel from about 1900 to 1950, but an author I don't remember but might have remembered as a well known early science fiction writer.

I am sure it wasn't the underground Moon civilization in H.G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon, nor the culture inside the hollow Moon in Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Moon Maid, nor the deep cavern Moon civilization in Otis Adelbert Klein's Maza of the Moon.

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    Do you recall if the Earthmen were astronauts from Earth, or were they living in a permanent base on the Moon?
    – DavidW
    Commented Jan 27, 2022 at 4:15
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    Could it be Edmond Hamilton's The Other Side of the Moon? archive.org/details/…
    – user14111
    Commented Jan 27, 2022 at 5:01
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    The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Heinlein? The Moon is a penal colony that fights Earth for independence. They mine for ice in the rock.
    – sueelleker
    Commented Jan 27, 2022 at 11:17
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    The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is from 1966 and would have been brand new when the OP read it. It certainly is not from before 1950.
    – Klaus Æ. Mogensen
    Commented Jan 27, 2022 at 12:16
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    I've been searching through my golden age collection and underground civilisations on the Moon are common trope. I think it's going to be hard to identify the novel unless you can think of some extra "key facts" to help us pin it down.
    – John Rennie
    Commented Jan 28, 2022 at 8:22

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