September 1931

From The Space Library

The AIS released David Lasser’s book The Conquest of Space, the first book in English to seriously address space flight. The book is distributed by publisher Hugo Gernsback’s network.

Issue #12 of the Bulletin of the American Interplanetary Society is published. It includes a discussion on whether life can exist on the moon and specifically changes in the crater Eratosthenes as noted by astronomer William H. Pickering.

A Mutiny in Space a science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Gawain Edwards appears in Hugo Gernsback's Science Wonder Stories magazine. The same issue also features Exiles of the Moon by American Interplanetary Society founder Nathaniel Schachner and Arthur Leo Zagat.