“Hollywood on the Moon” by Henry Kuttner contains all six stories in the series, featuring Tony Quade, ace cameraman for Nine Planets Films, Inc., as he travels throughout the Solar System in order to film some of the biggest movies ever made. Surrounded by stars and moguls he has a glamorous lifestyle and a brilliant career as long as he doesn’t get eaten by one of the monsters he encounters during his productions.
Tony Quade creates the monsters of various planets synthetically, or reproduces them on the screen via trick scientific photography. Glamorous Gerry Carlyle is the female Frank Buck of the future, bringing back alive the strange organisms of alien planets for the London Interplanetary Zoo. Carlyle, an advocate for realism, refuses to see the public hoaxed by fake spectacles such as Nine Planet Films, Inc. creates. Hence, a flaming feud which has blazed its way through the System.
“Hollywood on the Moon” (1938) – Drive Along Lunar Boulevard and Dine at the Silver Space-suit with Tony Quade, Camera Expert for Nine Planets Films, Inc., at the Movie Capital of the Future!
“Doom World” (1938) – Deep Within the Sub-Lunar Caverns of Hollywood on the Moon, the Most Glamorous City in the Solar System, a Horde of Radio-Controlled Robots Menace the Movie-Makers of an Ultra-Modern Era!
“The Star Parade” (1938) – Many a man’s plans to film the Great Martian Inferno had gone up in smoke – But when Tony Quade had to shoot it, there were Fireworks!
“The Energy Eaters” (1939) – Nothing in the Solar System daunted Gerry Carlisle – Except Hollywood on the Moon!
“The Seven Sleepers” (1940) – The movie-makers of tomorrow blast off from Hollywood on the Moon in quest of the greatest show in space—the secret locked within Almussen’s comet!
“Trouble On Titan” (1947) – The sub-human denizens of Saturn’s largest moon were said to be harmless — but when the ace director of Nine Planets Films was sent to photograph them, he was in for a shock!
