The Moon Maid
projects the reader far into the future and far into space as it records
the first voyage to the Moon (which Burroughs has taking place in 2025),
the conquest of the Earth by the moon, and centuries of struggle and oppression
as the enslaved Earth men try to regain possession of their planet.
THE
MOON MAID ~ THE PULPS (First Appearance): Part 1: Written in
1922: June 7 - July 20 as The Moon Maid
(partly dictated into
an Ediphone)
appeared as THE
MOON MAID in a 5-part serial in
Argosy All-Story Weekly:
1923: May 5, 12, 19,
26 & June 2
PART 2: THE MOON
MEN Written and rejected
in 1919: April 30-May 21 as "Under the Red Flag" Appeared as THE
MOON MEN in a 4-part serial in Argosy All-Story
Weekly 1925: February
21, 28 & March 7, 14.
PART 3: THE RED
HAWK Written in 1925:
April 20 - May 14 as "The Red Hawk" Appeared as a 3-part
serial in Argosy All-Story
Weekly 1925: September
5, 12 & 19.
Appeared as CONQUEST OF
THE MOON
(after the McClurg
First Edition Hardcover release)
In Modern Mechanics
& Invention
1928: November &
December ~ 1929: January & February
MOON
MAID: FIRST EDITION THE MOON MAID
A.C. McClurg (1926:
February 6)
(Major revisions to
Pt. 2 The Moon Men)
THE
MOON MAID ~ REPRINTS: MOON MAID: FIRST REPRINT
Grosset &
Dunlap - 1927 (and 1940)
MOON MEN
Canaveral Press -
1962: May 17
(McClurg Moon Maid
text with seven interiors by Mahlon Blaine)
THE MOON MAID amd
THE MOON MEN (with RED HAWK)
Ace Books (First of
many Ace paperback editions) ~ 1962
(released in two parts
using Argosy text)
Dover paperback (with
The Land That Time Forgot)
1963: April
Ballantine paperback
editions: TBA
NOTE: See our companion
Moon Maid Galleries for
Foreign, Interior,
Comics, Fanzine & Related Illustrations