The Library After Dark

Speculative

The Brick Moon, and Other Stories

by Edward Everett Hale

A vast brick sphere intended as a navigational marker is launched accidentally with people aboard. Hale imagined an artificial satellite and an inhabited space station decades before either existed, making this battered volume an ancestor of the outpost around you.

The librarian
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text
Reading time
About 5 hr 50 min
Where to find it
The Selenite Reading Outpost, on the Moon
Edition
Project Gutenberg, eBook #1633. In the public domain in the United States.

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