[nonplus]

Cloud Atlas (released 6 years after Moonfall was released as a book) also has a story with the earth being destroyed by mans attempt to harness the moon for energy (and also has a bad film adoption).

Moonfall is the first book I know of that used the concept, but it seems like humans have been fascinated with man or god(s) manipulating the moon for a very very long time, the oldest case I can think of is from the Quran (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_of_the_Moon), so we've been fixated on the idea for a long time.

Maybe there are more cases and I will read about them in the comments here.

[qingcharles]

Weirdly, Cloud Atlas also stars Halle Berry. I really like the movie of Cloud Atlas, myself. I've read the book at least three times, but I don't remember anything about the Moon?

[nonplus]

Oh wow that's because there is not a Moon breakup scene in Cloud Atlas!

It's in the movie adaption of The Time Machine. In the book though he just arrives in the future and the moon is already gone (Chapter XIV The Further Vision https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35/pg35-images.html).

I think I read cloud atlas and the time machine, and watched the time machine movie around the same time, and got everything mixed up.

That was a fun afternoon reading through bits of books until I could figure out what I was remembering.

[qingcharles]

Haha.. no worries.. you had me thinking I hadn't been paying attention when reading Cloud Atlas too. I was about to read it a fourth time! ;)