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The Brick Moon:  from the papers of Captain Frederic Ingham

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The Brick Moon: from the papers of Captain Frederic Ingham

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Author: Edward Everett Hale
Publisher: Baen, 2013
Original English publication, 1869
Series: Ron Miller Science Fiction Classics: Book 25
Book Type: Novella
Genre: Science-Fiction
Sub-Genre Tags: Mundane SF
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"The Brick Moon" is a short story by Edward Everett Hale, published serially in The Atlantic Monthly starting in 1869. It is a work of speculative fiction containing the first known depiction of an artificial satellite.

"The Brick Moon" is written as if it were a journal. It describes the construction and launch into orbit of a sphere, 200 ft. in diameter, built of bricks. It is intended as a navigational aid, but is accidentally launched with people aboard. They survive, and so the story also provides the first known fictional description of a space station.


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