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The book includes all 12 illustrations from the first Edition and a beautiful cover with an image from the 1902 French movie Le voyage dans la lune.

The First Men in the Moon is a scientific romance by the English author H. G. Wells, first published... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Of the enormous body of work produced by H. G. Wells -- more than a book a year over the course of half a century -- the early science fiction novels that first made him famous have proved to be the most enduring and have earned him the sobriquet "the father of modern science... Read Full Overview

"Why do people read science fiction? In hopes of receiving such writing as this--a ravishingly accurate vision of things unseen; an utterly unexpected yet necessary beauty." So says Ursula K. Le Guin in her Introduction to The First Men in the Moon , H. G. Wells's 1901 tale of... Read Full Overview

At the village of Lympne, on the south coast of England, the "most uneventful place in the world" the failed playwright Mr. Bedford meets the brilliant inventor Mr. Cavor, and together they invade the moon.

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... Read Full Overview

What good would the moon be to men? Even of their own planet what have they made but a battleground and theatre of infinite folly? Small as his world is, and short as his time, he has still in his little life down there far more than he can do.

A chance... Read Full Overview

Upon meeting Cavor, a physicist, Bedford, the narrator, becomes deeply intrigued by Cavor's work on a substance that will make space flight a reality. The two men design and build a spherical "spaceship" and upon its completion, shoot off into space to be the first men to visit... Read Full Overview

Published in 1901 and ahead of its time, The First Men in the Moon by science fiction author H. G. Wells is a fantastical story of a journey to the Moon which leads to the discovery of a brand new species. A prominent literary figure, H. G. Wells is known as the "father of... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Struggling with a financial crisis, Mr.Bedford moves to the country in hopes of diminishing his life costs and finding a peaceful lifestyle. His plan, however, is partially frustrated when he meets the brilliant and well-to-do Mr.Cavor who sends them both on a weightless journey... Read Full Overview

'As we saw it first it was the wildest and most desolate of scenes. We were in an enormous amphitheatre, a vast circular plain, the floor of the giant crater. Its cliff-like wall closed us in on every side '

Thanks to the discovery of an anti-gravity metal, Cavorite,... Read Full Overview

And this book is the sequel. So utterly at variance is destiny with all the little plans of men. I may perhaps mention here that very recently I had come an ugly cropper in certain business enterprises. Sitting now surrounded by all the circumstances of wealth, there is a luxury... Read Full Overview

The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon by the impecunious businessman Mr Bedford and the brilliant but eccentric scientist Dr Cavor. On arrival, Bedford and Cavor find the moon inhabited by a race of moon-folk the two call "Selenites." The novel can also be read as... Read Full Overview

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The First Men in the Moon is a scientific romance by the English author H. G. Wells. The novel tells the story of a journey to the Moon undertaken by the two protagonists, a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford, and... Read Full Overview