In late August 1835 the New York Sun, a one-cent paper, ran a series of articles claiming that the famous astronomer Sir John Herschel had seen life on the Moon through a giant new telescope: forests, blue unicorns, and winged people who looked like bats. Sales of the paper jumped. The author was a reporter named Richard Adams Locke. Herschel, far away at the Cape of Good Hope, knew nothing about it. The words are imagined.