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The First Men in the Moon

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
6 hours 41 minutes
ISBN
9781802561852
Published
3 December 2024
Imprint
Fantastica
  • Science fiction
  • sci fi
  • h.g. wells
  • philosophy
  • adventure
  • action
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • time travel
  • future

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Description

In Kent, businessman Bedford and physicist Cavor build a sphere coated with cavorite and fly to the Moon. Underground they meet mooncalves and the insect-like Selenites; Bedford lusts for gold and splashes home with ingots while Cavor remains to lecture the Grand Lunar. Wells's adventure of invention, greed, and a second world under the dust.

Author

H. G. Wells (1866–1946) was born in Bromley, trained in biology under Huxley, and turned that laboratory habit into fiction. The Time Machine sent a Victorian into deep time; The War of the Worlds brought the sky down on the Home Counties. He wrote as if the future were a social problem with monsters attached. The novels argue while they entertain. A draper's son who made scientific romance a public language.

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