Early observers of the moon saw forests, ice fields and even a star-shaped temple, but as Brunner observes, all these fantasies ended conclusively in 1969. Arguably the moon landings gave rise to a new fantasy, however, starting with Bill Kaysing's We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle. A wry compendium of all things moon-related, this enjoyable book takes in everything from the popular song "Blue Moon" to Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, from Georges Méliès's pioneering film A Trip to the Moon to Kubrick's 2001 and Duncan Jones's Moon. Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and HG Wells's The First Men in the Moon are duly noted, as is Proust, who seems to have associated moonshine with rheumatism. The moon was also linked to diseases, fever, melancholia and, of course, lunacy. It's not often that biomathematicians and gynaecologists get to work together, but it seems they found no scientific proof of any correlation between certain lunar phases and fertility or the menstrual cycle.