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)