"The Brick Moon" | |
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Short story by Edward Everett Hale | |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Science fiction |
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Published in | The Atlantic Monthly |
Publication type | Magazine |
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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).