Questions tagged [moon]
The Moon, also known as Luna, is Earth's only known permanent natural satellite.
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Help identify the title of a story about the back side of moon being missing
In his latest book 'The crash of 2016' author Thom Hartmann describes a story he once read in 'Amazing Stories'.
He doesn't mention a title or the author. Here is how he writes about it:
I was ...
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Identify a catastrophic sci fi story written before 1980: ruptured spleen, alien moon base, time and space travel, antimatter tool
I read a sci fi short story sometime between 1974-1980 but it may have been written long before that. I believe it was in a paper back anthology of sci fi stories, but I'm not certain.
I think the ...
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Robot tank run amok, its trainer trapped in cave on the Moon
Another dim memory from my sci-fi reading binges in the 1980s... this one almost definitely in one of the big hardback collections full of late Golden Age short stories.
The story is told from the ...
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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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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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Children's SF book about moon folk going to live on another planet
I remember reading a book, probably aimed at about a fourth grade level, in which there were aliens native to the moon. They decided to leave because more and more astronauts from earth were turning ...
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Old comic book, war with the moon, Pan-ku Chinese first man
Back in the 1960s, I once read an old, second hand, comic book about relations between the Earth and the Moon. In some television messages from the Moon, the hero saw a beautiful Moon woman, while ...
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Looking for a short story involving warfare on the moon
The story consists of the conversation at a dinner party between two couples. The husbands are soldiers in the opposing "white" and "black" armies that constantly wage war on the surface of the moon, ...
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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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Story about astronauts stranded on the moon
I read a story written in 50s to 60s about astronauts stuck on the moon. And they figure out how to get everything they need to survive from minerals on the moon: water, air, nutrients.
Similar to ...
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Girl living on the moon, flying, trip to Earth
I am trying to find a story that I read as a teenager in the 80s about a girl who lives on the Moon and is running a company which requires her to do a lot of Maths with her boyfriend (who calls her "...
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A series of books about a teenager that went to the moon to fight mould
I read a series of books, probably around 1962 - 1970, about some young kid (a teenager) whose name I think was Chris.
There was a problem with the Moon, it was being invaded by a mould (mold) which ...
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Earliest story to mention the different surface gravity on the Moon
What was the first science fiction story to mention that the Moon has a lower surface gravity than the Earth?
I'm sure that was mentioned many times in science fiction before the Space Age began in ...
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Blackhawk comic book, moon base, killer robot
I asked this question about a comic book I read back in the 1960s and got a quick answer.
Old comic book, war with the moon, Pan-ku Chinese first man1
Another comic book I read back in the 1960s, ...
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Warrior race trapped on their home planet by aliens. Their society turns out to be hyper-advanced [duplicate]
I read this story in a collection of short stories the 1980's and I am now looking for the publication. All I can recall is that it was about a warrior race imprisoned on their own planet by an ...
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