Hale, Edward Everett,  1822-1909 <br/><br/>
The Brick Moon, and Other Stories 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brick_Moon  Release date is 1999-02-01 
<br/><br/>The brick moon -- Crusoe in New York -- Bread on the waters -- The lost palace -- 99 Linwood Street -- Ideals -- Thanksgiving at the polls -- The survivor's story 
<br/><br/> "The Brick Moon, and Other Stories" by Edward Everett Hale is a collection published in 1899. The title novella, originally serialized in 1869, tells the story of a massive brick sphere designed as a navigational aid that accidentally launches into orbit with people aboard. This pioneering work of speculative fiction contains the first known fictional descriptions of both an artificial satellite and a space station, remarkably anticipating modern concepts of orbital navigation systems. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Short stories United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction 
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