Moon. 7 readings about her 50 years after her conquest.

Are fulfilled today 50 years of the arrival of the human being to the Moon. But we have not stepped on it again. Best. It is still there calm, lighting us majestic in its full roundness when it touches it. And altering seas and spirits prone to it, like those who were born lunatics this month where there have already been two eclipses with her as the protagonist. These are 7 selected readings to return there, even if it is with the imagination.

From the Earth to the moon - Julio Verne

How not to start with a classic of classics. The visionary Jules Verne published this novel in 1865. And it was such his <strong>success</strong> who did not hesitate to continue it with Around the moon, five years later.

From the Earth to the moon describes the preparations of space travel, and Around the moon relates the travel. Both follow the patterns of scientific disclosure, so present in Verne's work, but also notable for the liveliness of its characters and its touch of humor.

Luna - Ian McDonald

McDonald is a Welsh science fiction and fantasy writer with awards such as the Hugo or the Arthur C. Clarke. This New Moon is the first title of a trilogy type Game of Thrones with battles and intrigues between great families facing each other. Mankind has established a colony on the moon and it has to organize society, with its customs, its problems and those intrigues of the families who want to control the satellite.

Apollo 11 - Eduardo García Llama

Garcia Llama is NASA engineer in Houston and tell us the journey of Apollo 11 from launch to return to Earth. It does in a novel way in which its protagonists speak (it relies on the official transcripts of the flight). Several of its passages link to the biography of the astronauts, anecdotes y experiences during the flight and other details of this historic mission.

The Moon - Hannah Pang and Thomas Hegbrook

This informative book which explains the history and more facts about the Moon, giving you the Magic touch that humanity has given him over time. Inspirational for all, this title tries to explain why the Moon continues to generate so much fascination and fantasy.

Lunatics - Andrew Smith

With the question of where can you go once you've been to the moon, Andrew Smith addresses the astronauts still alive who have stepped on the moon. And he also does it to find out how their lives changed when he returned.

The result is a book with the Testimonials of those explorers who, in one way or another, they were touched for the experience. For example, one always paints the same picture, another writes songs about his landing on the moon, several took to drinking, others do not want to know anything about the world and others suffer from psychiatric illnesses.

The crimes of the full moon - Kit Whitfield

Another fantasy novel with criminal intrigue with other fictitious protagonists relevant when suffering the influence of the Moon: the Wolfman. We are in a society in which a large part of the population is made up of werewolves. There Lola may, a lawyer for the unpopular, but necessary, state service that controls lycanthropy, will have to resolve the murders of two of his companions. At the same time, he tries to straighten out his lonely life marked by prejudice and discrimination.

The Adventures of Tintin. Target: the Moon y Landing on the Moon - Hergé

And we close with another comic book classic this time. All the covers of Tintin are more than known, but those of these adventures are surely the most iconic and remembered, especially for that rocket.

It could not be that the most famous journalist in the world did not step on the Moon. So also he anticipated the royal conquest in the vignettes of these two volumes that Hergé published in 1950 and 1954 respectively. In addition, Hergé also proposed the existence of water on the moon, a fact that has been tested recently.