Lunar Colony

This illustrated novel is based on of Poptropica’s most recent islands, Lunar Colony.

A boy from Earth is trapped on the moon, attempting to find a missing astronaut and the truth about an alien transmission.

Science fiction-roman.

The Guardian cartoonist relates the daily deadpan adventures of the last policeman living on the moon "Living on the moon...Whatever were we thinking? ...It seems so silly now.” The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the Mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the population dwindles. A young girl runs away, a dog breaks off his leash, an automaton wanders off from the Museum of the Moon. Each day that the Mooncop goes to work, life gets a little quieter and a little lonelier. As in Goliath, Tom Gauld’s retelling of the Bible story, the focus in Gauld's science fiction is personal—no big explosions or grand reveals, just the incremental dissolution of an abandoned project and a person’s slow awakening to his own uselessness. Depicted in the distinctive, matter-of-fact style of his beloved Guardian strips, Mooncop is equal parts funny and melancholy. Gauld captures essential truths about humanity, making this a story of the past, present, and future, all in one.

"The Moon Colony" by William Dixon Bell is a visionary work that explores the concept of a human colony on the moon. Bell's book delves into the realm of science fiction, offering readers a glimpse into a future where lunar exploration and colonization are a reality. This book is an engaging choice for science fiction enthusiasts, providing a thought-provoking exploration of the possibilities of space exploration and human habitation beyond Earth.

This extraordinary book details how the Moon could be used as a springboard for Solar System exploration. It presents a realistic plan for placing and servicing telescopes on the Moon, and highlights the use of the Moon as a base for an early warning system from which to combat threats of near-Earth objects. A realistic vision of human development and settlement of the Moon over the next one hundred years is presented, and the author explains how global living standards for the Earth can be enhanced through the use of lunar-based generated solar power. From that beginning, the people of the Earth would evolve into a spacefaring civilisation.

This is speculative fiction focusing on Lunar Settlers who decide to create a new colony under different rules. The Politics behind it are not speculative.

Describes the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, explains the need for establishing a moon base, and speculates about future situations in which the base would be used.