H. G. Wells

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".

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The First Men In The Moon

A small group of scientists come up with a plan to reach the Moon, only to discover that Earth's supposedly barren satellite is inhabited by a thriving community of insects.

The First Men in the Moon

Emily Booth

This score is purely a reflection of my personal tastes. Attempting to expand my preferences when it comes to books, but it seems that this was not it for me.

FIRST MEN IN THE MOON; ED. BY PATRICK PARRINDER.

Anastaciya

So endearingly naive, the science part of the fiction, the idea that one man can build an apparatus to take him to the Moon, basically in his back yard, and get to the Moon, alone!..
But the part about human fears and doubts and loneliness and emotions is spot on.

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H.G. Wells

When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a stunned Bedford the invention makes possible one of the oldest dreams of humanity: a journey to the moon. With Bedford motivated by money, and Cavor by the desire for knowledge, the two embark on the expedition. But neither are prepared for what they find - a world of freezing nights, boiling days and sinister alien life, on which they may be trapped forever.

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