The Moon Colony

In this book of prescient science and high adventure, we find one of the earliest realistic descriptions of terraforming and how it might be accomplished. "The Moon Colony" is also one of the earliest SF novels to discuss the work of Robert Goddard on liquid fuel rockets and the possibility of employing solar power on the lunar surface. The novel also features not just one but three outstanding female protagonists. When a mad scientific genius endeavours to transform the Moon into another Earth, he doesn't count on the resistance from its existing inhabitants. Originally published in 1937. Illustrated/