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The First Men in the Moon

Author
H. G. Wells
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
218 pages
ISBN
9781787241978
Published
22 February 2017
Imprint
Fantastica
  • Science fiction
  • sci fi
  • h.g. wells
  • philosophy
  • adventure
  • action
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • time travel
  • future

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Description

Businessman Bedford and physicist Cavor coat a sphere with cavorite in Kent and reach the Moon, finding mooncalves and the underground Selenites. Bedford wants gold and flees with ingots; Cavor stays to face the Grand Lunar. Two men, gravity defied, and a second world under the dust: Wells's voyage of invention, greed, and what waits beneath the lunar crust.

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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