@booklet {6940, title = {"The Brick Moon. From the Papers of Captain Frederic Ingham"}, howpublished = {Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA)}, volume = {24.144 - 46, 25.148}, year = {1869}, note = {

Rpt. in his His Level Best. and Other Stories (Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1872), 30-124; in The Brick Moon and Other Stories. Vol. 4 of The Works of Edward Everett Hale (Boston, MA: Little Brown, and Co., 1899), 3-99; and New York: The Spiral Press for members of the Imprint Society, Barre, Massachusetts, 1971.\ 

}, month = {October - December 1869, February 1870}, pages = {451-60; 603-11; 679-88; 215-22}, abstract = {

Most of the story is taken up with the attempt to launch a satellite (made of bricks). After the accidental, but successful, launch with people inside, it becomes impossible to bring it back. The story ends with the people in the new moon creating a eutopia for themselves based on complete equality. The people on earth conclude that close ties among a small group may be the best way to live.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Edward Everett] [Hale] (1822-1909)} }