Title: The First Men in the Moon
Description: 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: Classic Literature, Fiction, Imperialism, Moon, Science fiction, Space flight to the moon, Translations into Russian, Utopias, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, action & adventure, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Satire, English literature, Fiction, general, Action & Adventure, General, Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Interplanetary voyages, Space flight to the moon -- Fiction, Imperialism -- Fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization
People: Claude Allan Shepperson (1867-1921), H. G. Wells (1866-1946)