Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope
| First published | 1835 |
|---|---|
| Type | Short Fiction |
| Length | Novelette |
<br>Available on page 255, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?GRSBCKYR1999">Bleiler (Gernsback)</a>.
First published as a 6-part serial in New York daily newspaper The Sun, from August 25 to August 30 of 1835 --uncredited-- and under the heading (so fashioned at Hoaxes.org):
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| 1835 | A Complete Account of the Late Discoveries in the Moon: From a Supplement to the Edinburgh Journal | Sun Office | Chapbook | ||
| 1835 | Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope | Chapbook | |||
| August 1835 | The Sun, August 25, 1835 | MAGAZINE | |||
| August 1835 | The Sun, August 26, 1835 | MAGAZINE | |||
| August 1835 | The Sun, August 27, 1835 | MAGAZINE | |||
| August 1835 | The Sun, August 28, 1835 | MAGAZINE | |||
| August 1835 | The Sun, August 29, 1835 | MAGAZINE | |||
| August 1835 | The Sun, August 30, 1835 | MAGAZINE | |||
| 1836 | Some Account of the Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir Thomas Herschel, at the Cape of Good Hope | Effingham Wilson | Chapbook | 1 | |
| 1852 | The Celebrated "Moon Story," Its Origin and Incidents, with a Memoir of the Author, and an Appendix, Containing I. An Authentic Description of the Moon; II. A New Theory of the Lunar Surface in Relation to That of the Earth, by William N. Griggs. | Bunnell and Price | Chapbook | 47 | |
| 1859 | The Moon Hoax; or, A Discovery That the Moon Has a Vast Population of Human Beings | William Gowans | Chapbook | 7 | |
| 1876 |
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All Around the Moon | The Catholic Publication Society | Novel | 431 |
| 1886 | The Great Moon Hoax of Richard Adams Locke | W. W. Osgoodby | Chapbook | ||
| September 1926 |
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Amazing Stories, September 1926 | Experimenter Publishing Company | MAGAZINE | 556 |
| June 1975 | The Moon Hoax; or, A Discovery That the Moon Has a Vast Population of Human Beings | Gregg Press | Chapbook | |7 | |
| July 2011 |
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Journeys to the Moon | Collector's Guide Publishing | Anthology | |2 |
| March 2017 |
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Neueste Berichte vom Cap der guten Hoffnung über Sir John Herschel's höchst merkwürdige astronomische Entdeckungen, den Mond und seine Bewohner betreffend: Nebst kurzer Übersicht einiger neu entdeckter und beobachteter Doppelsterne und Nebelflecken | Das Kulturelle Gedächtnis | Chapbook | |
| March 2018 |
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Voyage to the Moon and Other Imaginary Lunar Flights of Fancy in Antebellum America | Anthem Press | Anthology | |3 |
| March 2018 |
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Voyage to the Moon and Other Imaginary Lunar Flights of Fancy in Antebellum America | Anthem Press | Anthology | |3 |
| March 2020 |
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Science Fiction of Antebellum America: An Anthology | C. W. Gross | Anthology | 214 |