Herbert George Wells
THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON
Paperback
(Independently published Dec. 28, 2016)
The First Men in the Moon is a scientific romance published in 1901 by the English author H. G. Wells, who called it one of his "fantastic stories". The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the two protagonists, a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford, and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilization of insect-like creatures they call "Selenites". Summary: In 1899, a playwright named Bedford runs into an eccentric scientist named Cavor, who has been working on a metal alloy that will block gravity waves, and builds a spherical craft with shutters made of this material that can be open and shut, with the effect of making the craft alternately impervious and responsive to gravity. The two men pilot the craft to the moon, where they explore in the very thin atmosphere and much lighter gravitational conditions, but run afoul of some insect-like creatures who live below the surface, raise and eat giant "mooncalves" and vary a lot in their own shapes and capabilities. Gold and other valuable minerals are also in evidence, but taken prisoner, can the two men escape and return to Earth?
- ISBN
- 1520252323 / 9781520252322
- Pages
- 177
- Weight
- 11.5 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.45 in.
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