On The Moon

Is the Moon inhabited? It was, in sf -

Wells: Selenites;

ERB: Moon Men;

CS Lewis: the Moon not visited but its inhabitants described in That Hideous Strength.

However, that was a very long time ago, in an earlier era. Two film adaptations of The First Men In The Moon present different explanations as to why there are no Selenites any more: either killed by Cavor's cold or their atmosphere ejected by Cavorite.

Will the Moon be inhabited, i.e., colonized? Lunar colonization is a major aspect of Robert Heinlein's Future History. A colonized Moon is a setting in Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History and an even bigger setting in the Polesotechnic League period of his Technic History. However, Anderson's main contribution to fictional Lunar colonization is the Lunarians, human beings artificially adapted to Lunar gravity in his later Harvest Of Stars Tetralogy. Lunarians must live permanently inside enclosed artificial environments because they have not discovered the gravity control that can hold an atmosphere even on an asteroid in Anderson's Flying Mountains future history.

Thus, this post has now referred to four Andersonian future history series. Another set of Andersonian characters terraform the Moon in "Strange Bedfellows."