Questions tagged [moon]
The Moon, also known as Luna, is Earth's only known permanent natural satellite.
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Children's novel: three children (plus dog?) travel to the Moon in pretend spaceship turned real
I remember a children's novel that I read in the late 1970s / early 1980s about three children travelling to the Moon. There were some illustrations; I think the colour scheme of those was black, ...
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SciFi book, about a human colony on the moon. A central computer becomes sentient and forms an alliance or teams up with the main character
SciFi book, about a human colony on the moon. A central computer becomes sentient and forms an alliance or teams up with the main character.
Read 40-50 yr ago. Maybe school suggested it for general ...
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How long are the lunar cycles in Elder Scrolls?
When doing research on Khajiit and learning about their Furstocks, I started wondering if there was a predictable lunar cycle in the elder scrolls that you could put on calenders and use to predict ...
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Short story about driving remotely operated vehicles on moon. A Student(?) drives one to rescue shuttle crash victim
Man has established bases on the Moon. A lot of work is done with remotely operated vehicles (R.O.V.s) exploring, mining, hauling, and transportation. (Like buses or taxis. I'm not sure about this one....
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Old YA book. (60s?) Young man wants to become a rocket ship pilot
YA USA hardback library book. 1960s or before. Very Heinlein YA type story, but not one of his books.
I distinctly remember the opening chapter. A young man is playing baseball. Maybe a college or ...
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Looking for a story: Tire yard on the moon
In a bar, someone told me a story about some scrapyard-guy who accepts (worthless and non-reusable) junk for really low prices and people start to wonder how he disposes it, they try to find out how ...
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Short Sci-fi Story about a door on the Moon?
I read it in a sci-fi collection book, like a "Greatest Sci-Fi Of XXXX". I read a story years ago while underway on a submarine, about a door that appears on the moon, and a retired astronaut is ...
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Sci fi story with a coke sign on the moon?
I can remember reading a sci fi story where a rocket package was placed on the moon and when detonated sent the explosion of glitter fragments into the lunar atmosphere. And because of the lack of ...
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1950s-ish novels with spacecraft drives that are concentric rings
Looking for the name of the author of a series of short novels (at least two in the series) where spacecraft engines are concentric rings (some sort of reactionless drive?) that gave off a glow when ...
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Book series about Moon base
Book series following life of a man from pilot, to first man to have sex in space, then later as an astronaut he kills a female astronaut, later he becomes leader of Moon base who has conflict with ...
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Short story where a woman on the moon turns off the hologram trees and garden [duplicate]
Does anyone recognise this story? It was in a sci-fi anthology I found in a charity shop and have since lost.
A woman lives with her husband in a town on the moon. He goes to work every day and she is ...
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American astronaut abducted from moon, placed in alien zoo, must work with time-traveling Roman soldier
I found this novel in English at my local library in the mid-1990's, but the book itself looked like it was from the 1950's or 60's. If I remember correctly, it had a picture of an astronaut in a ...
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Book about a young girl with something to do with the Moon
I remember very few details about the book. I read it in the 1990s. I remember it had a young girl who lives in a clan, maybe? There was something to do with the Moon. I think they had advanced ...
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Trying to find old story of alien who looks like a dog, boy and dog go to the moon
I am looking for the title and/or author of a book or short story from either the 50's or 60's that I read when I was a teenager. In the book, a boy finds a dog (that may have crash-landed on earth). ...
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1990s novel with sleeping alien machine inside the moon that teleports to another galaxy
I read a book a few years ago that looked like a mass-market paperback from the 1990s or so.
It was about humans just barely colonizing our own solar system and doing wormhole experiments around Pluto/...
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