Minions of the Moon

This article is about the science-fiction novel. For the series of Alan Moore short stories, see The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century.

Minions of the Moon is a science fiction novel by American writer William Gray Beyer, originally serialized in the magazine Argosy in 1939. It was published in book form in 1950 by Gnome Press in an edition of 5,000.

Minions of the Moon

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	William Gray Beyer
Cover artist	Edd Cartier
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Gnome Press
Publication date	1950
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	190
OCLC	1296689

Plot introduction

The novel is a space opera about a contemporary man who awakens in the far future.

Reception

Boucher and McComas gave Minions a mixed review, describing it as "a conventional enough sleeper-wakes-into-retrograde-world story, but told with a fine blend of high romantic adventure and lively absurdity.".^[1] Damon Knight found the novel an "old-style romance, somewhat the worse for wear".^[2] P. Schuyler Miller declared that the author's treatment of "Omega, [the] puckish, hammish disembodied superintelligence, last survivor of the lunar race of whatsits," sets the novel apart from the routine.^[3]