THE MOON FOR ITS CITIZENS:
A HISTORY OF THE ROCKET FROM HERMES TRISMEGISTUS TO THE 23RD CENTURY
WALLACE COCHRAN

Amazingly this is not the densest, content-wise, of our publications, but if you count girth, then yes, gold metal. The Moon is a creatively non-fictive account of the history of the rocket, from Hermes Trismegistus to the 23rd Century. An accompanying record has been made for this text, whose lyrics play a role in The Moon. That record, 20009, by Drakkar Sauna, is available on the music label half of Marriage. The author of this text is half of the band.

ISBN: 978-1-934399-10-1
COVER: 1/0 TEXT: 1/1
232 PP, LETTERPRESSED, OFFSET
10.8cm X 20.3cm
EDITION: 500
DESIGN: A.F. JAMISON
2009, 18 USD

AN EXCERPT FROM PAGE 69:

"The importance of militarism to the modern development of the rocket cannot be overstated. The g-ds of the ancient world were murderers, drakkars, conquerors, and with the exception of some schools of Quaker and the Indian Janists, so are ours. 'Remember Set!' was the holler of more than one English battalion going over the top at Gallipoli, the Pope and his sordid diocese invented vampires, when Muhammad declared a general amnesty on returning to Mecca he still beheaded the comedians. But...rocketry was never going to advance if left to the Bishops, pastors, and Imams."