In Japanese mythology, it is said that a tribe of human-like spiritual beings live on the Moon. This is especially explored in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. See especially McColley, « The Man in the Moone ». Also Schwonke and Dupont. Winter misleadingly clai (...)

The events of The First Men in the Moon are used as the precursor to the player's adventure in Larry Niven and Steven Barnes' " Dream Park" series adventure novel, The Moon Maze Game, which describes a fantasy role playing game being played on (and televised from) a crater and tunnels on the Moon. It’s good,” said I. “Infernally good! What a home for our surplus population! Our poor surplus population,” and I broke off another large portion. a b c d Cressy, David (2006), "Early Modern Space Travel and the English Man in the Moon", The American Historical Review, 111 (4): 961–82, doi: 10.1086/ahr.111.4.961, JSTOR 10.1086/ahr.111.4.961 Preface", in Seven Famous Novels (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934, p. vii). Wells considered this category of work, which in his oeuvre also includes The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The Food of the Gods, and In the Days of the Comet, to be "a class of writing which includes the Golden Ass of Apuleius, the True Histories of Lucian, Peter Schlemil and the story of Frankenstein ... they do not aim to project a serious possibility; they aim indeed only at the same amount of conviction as one gets in a good gripping dream. They have to hold the reader to the end by art and illusion and not by proof and argument, and the moment he closes the cover and reflects he wakes up to their impossibility" (ibid.).In the summer of 1957, Danielle "Dani" Trant is a 14-year-old girl in Louisiana who, according to her father Matthew, is "too small to be running off by herself." Dani and her older sister Maureen, who is going off to college in the fall, are very close. Maureen helps take care of their younger sister, Missy, while their mother Abigail is pregnant. The book's genre has been variously categorised. When it was first published the literary genre of utopian fantasy was in its infancy, and critics have recognised how Godwin used a utopian setting to criticise the institutions of his time: the Moon was "the ideal perspective from which to view the earth" and its "moral attitudes and social institutions," according to Maurice Bennett. [51] Other critics have referred to the book as "utopia", [52] "Renaissance utopia" or "picaresque adventure". [53] While some critics claim it as one of the first works of science fiction, [3] [54] there is no general agreement that it is even "proto-science-fiction". [53] Evans, Ben (2010). Foothold in the Heavens: The Seventies. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 143. ISBN 1441963421. McColley over stresses the case for a Baconian influence on Godwin, ignoring Bacon’s belief in a ge (...)

is reviewed between 08.30 to 16.30 Monday to Friday. We're experiencing a high volume of enquiries so it may take us Godwin's book appeared in a time of great interest in the Moon and astronomical phenomena, and of important developments in celestial observation, mathematics and mechanics. The influence particularly of Nicolaus Copernicus led to what was called the "new astronomy"; Copernicus is the only astronomer Godwin mentions by name, but the theories of Johannes Kepler and William Gilbert are also discernible. [1] Galileo Galilei's 1610 publication Sidereus Nuncius (usually translated as "The Sidereal Messenger") had a great influence on Godwin's astronomical theories, although Godwin proposes (unlike Galileo) that the dark spots on the Moon are seas, one of many similarities between The Man in the Moone and Kepler's Somnium sive opus posthumum de astronomia lunaris of 1634 ("The Dream, or Posthumous Work on Lunar Astronomy"). [1] Gilbert, De magnete magnetisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure: physiologia nova , London, 1600, Book VI, chapters iii, iv, v. On Godwin and De magnete see Johnson, Astronomical Thought , op. cit.Most accounts of The Man in the Moone ignore the China episode. One exception is Paul Cornelius, Languages in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Imaginary Voyages (Geneva, Droz, 1965), which, for obvious reasons, confines discussion to language. Janssen, Anke (1985), "A Hitherto Unnoticed Allusion to Francis Godwin's The Man in the Moone in Swift's The Battel Between the Antient and the Modern Books", Notes and Queries, 32 (1): 200, doi: 10.1093/nq/32-2-200

A French translation by Jean Baudoin, L'Homme dans la Lune, was published in 1648, and republished four more times. [g] This French version excised the narrative's sections on Lunar Christianity, [37] as so do the many translations based on it, [38] including the German translation incorrectly ascribed [39] to Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Der fliegende Wandersmann nach dem Mond, 1659. [h] Johan van Brosterhuysen (c. 1594–1650) translated the book into Dutch, [41] and a Dutch translation– possibly Brosterhuysen's, although the attribution is uncertain [42]– went through seven printings in the Netherlands between 1645 and 1718. The second edition of 1651 and subsequent editions include a continuation of unknown authorship relating Gonsales' further adventures. [43] [44] [i] In a little while, in a very little while, if I tell my secret, this planet to its deepest galleries will be strewn with human dead. Other things are doubtful, but that is certain. It is not as though man had any use for the moon. What good would the moon be to men? Even of their own planet what have they made but a battle-ground and theatre of infinite folly? Small as his world is, and short as his time, he has still in his little life down there far more than he can do. No! Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand. Let him find it out for himself again—in a thousand years’ time.” When Mr Bedford's financial difficulties become pressing, he leaves London for the quiet of the Kentish countryside to write a play which he is sure will win him fame and fortune, despite him never having written anything before. Instead, he meets his new neighbour Mr Cavor, an eccentric scientist, and becomes intrigued and excited by the possibilities of the invention Cavor is working on – a substance that will defy gravity. Bedford, always with an eye for the main chance, begins to imagine the commercial possibilities of such a substance, but Cavor is more interested in the glory that he will gain from the scientific community. And so it is that these two mismatched men find themselves as partners on an incredible voyage – to the Moon!

a b c d Hutton, Sarah (2005), " The Man in the Moone and the New Astronomy: Godwin, Gilbert, Kepler" (PDF), Études Épistémè, 7: 3–13, archived from the original (PDF) on 26 August 2011 In Norse mythology, Máni is the male personification of the Moon who crosses the sky in a horse-drawn carriage. He is continually pursued by the Great Wolf Hati who catches him at Ragnarök. Máni simply means "Moon". Moonbots, moonmice, lunar moths, and glowworms make good companions, so why was the Man in the Moon feeling lonely?