SciFi/Fantasy – August 25

“We have just learnt from an eminent publisher in this city that Sir John Herschel, at the Cape of Good Hope, has made some astronomical discoveries of the most wonderful description, by means of an immense telescope of an entirely new principle.”

The Great Moon Hoax started on this date in 1835 when the New York Sun launched a series of six satirical articles about the discovery of a civilization on the Moon that was believed by the paper’s readers.

Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist learns that something s/he has believed passionately is a hoax.

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