Science fiction
Moon Children
This fanciful work by a popular author of children’s stories, histories, and genealogy is a “Mother Goose” style rhyme and story which was published in 1902. It depicts children and their families being visited by children from the moon and their adventures together. It is amply illustrated, but in need of extensive preservation treatment. It is part of the National Air & Space Museum Library's collection of fiction works that focus on fantasies about life on other worlds.
L͡iudi i Zvëzdy
This is one of over 1,600 titles at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Library classified as a pop-up and movable book. Some of these titles have been in the collection since the founding of the Cooper Union Museum in 1897. However, the majority of the pop-up collection was acquired in the 1980s and continues to grow through donations from collectors and select purchases. Spanning over 500 years, these action-packed works of art were intended to calculate, educate, entertain, and amaze. This book is a particularly rare example on astronomy published in the USSR in 1982.
[Other Lunar Discoveries of Mr. Herschel]
The War in the Air
H. G. Wells's The War in the Air is a dark futuristic work of science fiction depicting aerial warfare between the United States and Germany. Wells's prophetic vision was written well before WWI when full scale aerial warfare would take place. The story unfolds of Bert Smallways, a young man accidentally carried away in a navigable airship invented by Mr. Butteridge. During his adventure, Smallways travels to Germany, discovering a secret airfield, and in the process, Germany's plans to attack the United States.
