| "The Brick Moon" | |
|---|---|
| Short story by Edward Everett Hale | |
 The Brick Moon from NASA archive | |
 Text available at Wikisource | |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction |
| Publication | |
| Published in | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Publication type | Magazine |
| Media type | |
| Publication date | 1869 |
"The Brick Moon" is a novella by American writer Edward Everett Hale, published serially in the magazine The Atlantic Monthly in 1869. It is a work of speculative fiction containing the first known fictional description of an artificial satellite (though in 1728 a publication by Isaac Newton included a description of Newton's cannonball, a hypothetical artificial object which is projected from a mountain, as a thought experiment to explain why natural satellites move as they do).