The Moon

Baron Münchhausen’s Scientific Adventures – In these thirteen tales, Baron Münchhausen is shown to have not actually died in 1797 as was assumed. He along with his companion Professor Flitternix went on to become the first men to explore the moon and even the planet Mars.

The Pool of Life – From out of the primordial ooze comes an entity that plots to conquer the Earth.

The Moon Trilogy is a three-part story that begins with a tale of space travel and reincarnation, becomes a tale of military dictatorship, and ends with a second American Revolution.

Encounters – Four stories of encounters with the Other by Arthur C. Clarke.

Captain Future: Return And Farewell – three Science Fiction novelettes from the Captain Future saga. The Return of Captain Future begins the second incarnation of Curtis Newton, Grag the robot, Otho the android, and Simon Wright, the disembodied brain in the pages of Startling Stories. The saga ends with Earthmen No More and Birthplace of Creation, also from Startling Stories.

The Moon Terror and Other Stories was originally sold by Weird Tales but was eventually given away free with a subscription to the magazine. Published in 1927, the book reproduces one novel, one novelette and two short stories from the beginnings of the magazine’s run.

Hollywood On The Moon features Tony Quade, ace cameraman for Nine Planets Films, Inc., as he travels throughout the Solar System in order to film some of the biggest movies ever made. Surrounded by stars and moguls he has a glamourous lifestyle and a brilliant career as long as he doesn’t get eaten by one of the monsters he encounters during his productions.

The Lunar Point of View is a collection of four stories by S.M. Tenneshaw a “house name” for Fantastic Adventures and Amazing Stories. The actual writers of these stories are unknown.

The Solar Invasion by Manly Wade Wellman
Captain Future, Joan Randall and the Futuremen cruise to a strange world in a different dimension, peopled with weird pallid inhabitants on the quest to find the Moon which was mysteriously plucked from the sky! This full length Captain Future novel by Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986) is from 1946.

One of the early great space opera novels, Brigands of the Moon by Ray Cummings (1887-1957) was serialized in four parts in Astounding Stories of Super Science in its March through June 1930 issues. Gregg Haljan, Third Officer of the Planetara, must fight Martian pirates and Earth traitors to protect the precious radium ore found on the Moon from being hijacked.