Moon Hammer/Meta

This page is for planning the story Moon Hammer. Collaborating authors are welcome!

The Story Idea
Moon Hammer is a science fiction ghost story. There is no "ghost" in the conventional sense of a "disembodied spirit". However, the story involves the reactions of people who believe in ghosts. A long-range goal of the story is to produce an audio script that would be similar to The War of the Worlds as presented by radio in 1938...hopefully an audio version of the Moon Hammer story can be ready by Halloween of 2009.

There is no conventional ghost in the Moon Hammer story, but there is a "ghost-like" character that comes back to haunt the people of Earth. Heinrich Kramer is famous for writing the Malleus Maleficarum, a book that codified the notion of a witch from the perspective of Kramer. "Malleus Maleficarum" can be translated into moder terms as "The Hammer Against Witches"...basically it provided a "how to" manual for accusing and convicting people of witchcraft. The Moon Hammer story is appropriate for Halloween because of Kramer's zeal for fighting supernatural evil forces in the form of witches. The Moon Hammer story is a ghost story because "the spirit" of Heinrich Kramer, who dies around 1505, is shown to be "haunting" the Earth in the year 2009. The Moon Hammer story is science fiction because it provides a "scientific" explanation for how "the spirit" of Heinrich Kramer is able to exist on the Moon in 2009.

Timeline of events
This is not the order of events in the Moon Hammer story, but rather a chronological sequence of events that is the backstory.

21,394,577 BCE - Aliens arrive on Earth
The Moon Hammer story is set in the Exodemic Fictional Universe, which means that aliens from a distant star system first visited Earth long ago. In general the aliens do not interfere with the development of life on Earth and humans on Earth are not allowed to become aware of the existence of the aliens. Mostly the aliens just observe Earth, but on special occasions they do take living organisms off of Earth and transport them to other worlds.