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re: Terminolgy

"Lunarians" is taken: the oldest Science Fiction fan organization, founded in New York City and still going strong (as far as I know). Their convention is called "LunaCon".*

"Lunatics" has some history to it, too. See The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlien, and Steel Beach by Varley.

"Selenites" is what the lunar natives were called in Verne's From the Earth to the Moon (at least in translation).

[* -- Too Much Information Dept.: the first recognized SF convention was a weekend meeting between the Lunarians and the Philadelphia SF Society, in Philly, in 1936]

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