The novel was originally serialized in four parts in the magazine Argosy beginning in December 1929.

Ted Dustin, an American inventor, seeks to win a prize of one million dollars by being the first person to touch the Moon with an object launched from Earth.

Shortly thereafter, the Moon fires back, and war breaks out between the planet and its satellite.

A beautiful woman and her guards first reply, but their transmission is cut off by warlike yellow aliens.

In 1951 Avon Publications published a comic adaptation in Rocket to the Moon, by Walter B. Gibson (script) and Joe Orlando (art).