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"Cyberspace is a metaphor that allows us to grasp this place where since about the time of the second world war we've increasingly done so many of the things that we think of as civilization."
- William Gibson
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| Moonbase (or Moon Base) | ||
| A base of operations on Earth's moon. |
As far as I know, the first use of the phrase "moonbase."
| The dinner was excellent. It was completely vegetarian — grown in specially prepared gardens in this Moon base beneath the orb’s surface. When dinner was over we retired to a small library. Here Muriel threw off her mask of joviality and became serious. |
| Technovelgy from The Exiles of Venus,
by Jim Vanny. Published by Wonder Stories in 1931 Additional resources -
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L. Ron Hubbard in 240,000 Miles Straight Up (1948):
Robert Heinlein ties with Hubbard on this one; RAH uses this phrase in Space Cadet, published that same year:
Hubbard does not get pride of place for earliest description of a lunar habitation. As far as I know, the moon dome from Ray Cummings 1931 novel Brigands of the Moon was the first scientifically accurate description in science fiction. See also moon-dome from Last Blast (1952) by Eric Frank Russell.
See also the earliest reference to the idea of a permanent settlement on the moon, the lunar colony from The Lunar Trilogy: On the Silver Globe, by Jerzy Żuławski.
Typical corporal-made-good, Slavinsky had been Moscow's favorite peasant. About as cultured as a bull, he was quite proud of his refinement. And he had been sent with troops, supplies and bombs to command Russia's most trusted post, the Moonbase.
A cabal of high-ranking officers, acting from Moon Base, tried to seize power over the entire world. The plot would have been successful had not Lieutenant Dahlquist disabled every atom-bomb rocket at Moon Base by removing the fissionable material from each and wrecking the triggering mechanisms.
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