Luna in Popular Culture (Luna: Earth II)

List of novels, television programs, news reports, etc. of.

Novels and short stories

 * 1809: The Conquest of the Moon by Washington Irving. An invasion story meant as an allegory about treatment of Native Americans by European settlers in America.
 * 1835: The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall by Edgar Allan Poe. A repairer of bellows in Rotterdam creates a giant balloon and an 'air compressor' to allow him to travel to the Moon.
 * 1887: Exiled from Earth (French: Les Exilés de la Terre), by Paschal Grousset. A Sudanese mountain composed of pure iron ore is converted into a huge electro-magnet and catapulted to the Moon where the protagonists have various adventures with the lunar inhabitants.
 * 1865: From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne. A projectile is launched from Florida and lands in the Pacific Ocean (not unlike the .)
 * 1901: The First Men in The Moon by H. G. Wells. A spaceship gets to the moon with the aid of Cavorite (a material which shields out gravity.) It is inhabitated by insect-like Selenites who are ruled by a Grand Lunan, and who prevents Cavor from returning to Earth after learning of humanity's warlike and harmful nature.
 * 1923: The Greatest War by W. G. Smith. Lunar inhabitants come to Earth with greater-advanced spaceships come attack Earth for its metals that are being depleted on Luna during World War I and eventually side with Nazi Germany.
 * 1941: 1941: Doomsday by Franklin Lovecraft. A group of Lunar ships attack Earth to enslave humans.
 * 1961-1978: The Matthew Looney series of children's books by Jerome Beatty Jr. An inhabited Moon's government is intent on invading the Earth.
 * 1962: ''Romeo and Juliet: A Love Story on Two Worlds" by T. R. Crenshaw. Set in 2041, Romeo (a human) and a lunan named Juliet's love for each other is put to the test when Juliet's family forbids Romeo to see Juliet by going back to Luna, based off of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
 * 1979: Down to a Moon, a post-apocalyptic novel by Stephen Davis. Set in a near-future world where most of the world has been destroyed by nuclear war, a group of human survivors travel to Luna to start a new civilization.
 * 1994: Mission: Luna by Damien Smith. One man is on a mission to hunt the Lunar inhabitants for them to give up their abundance of freshwater, a resource being depleted on Earth with a population of 10 billion humans.
 * 1999: Moon Rock, a short story by William Brown. This book tells the story of what it would be like if Luna had a smaller core.
 * 2006: Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. An asteroid impacts Luna with enough force to kill its inhabitants while moving it closer to the Earth. With its intense gravity, it causes worldwide tsunamis and hurricanes that threatens life on Earth.

Television

 * The Star Trek series has several mentions of Luna. It is one of the first television programs to call Luna "Luna" instead of "The Moon." Each of the seven series includes at least one lunan on the Enterprises. Lunar inhabitants on Star Trek didn't differ from humans. They were the same height with same skin tones until the discovery of actual in 1987. The characters in Star Trek: The Original Series weren't changed in the remastered edition or throughout the rest of the series due to the fact lunans wouldn't be able to fit on starships.
 * An episode of Family Guy includes a cutaway gag of a lunan that visits the Griffin house. Peter Griffin asks him to come into the house, but destroys half of it trying to walk in the front door due to their sheer height.
 * An episode of The Simpsons saw the family travel to Luna when Homer wins the lottery. The episode had received criticism for the scene in which Homer introduces the Lunan Type-Bs to Duff Beer and their civilization slowly turns into chaos.
 * The Mythbusters episode "NASA Moon Landing" tests if the Apollo moon landing was faked. Later, on an episode of The Colbert Report, the Mythbusters mention wanting to film an episode on Luna to prove that the modules are still there.