The First Men in the Moon
About this book
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.
Subjects
- action & adventure
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- classic literature
- english literature
- fiction
- fiction, action & adventure
- fiction, general
- fiction, science fiction, action & adventure
- fiction, science fiction, general
- general
- imperialism
- imperialism -- fiction
- interplanetary voyages
- long now manual for civilization
- moon
- satire
- science fiction
- space flight to the moon
- space flight to the moon -- fiction
- translations into russian
- utopias