Before Apollo, before rockets — there was Cavorite, and two men brave enough to use it.
Eccentric scientist Mr. Cavor invents a substance that blocks the pull of gravity itself, and enlists the debt-ridden businessman Bedford to help him build a sphere and sail it to the Moon. What they find there — a honeycombed lunar underworld ruled by the insectoid Selenites, an alien civilization stranger and more unsettling than anything on Earth — will test whether either man can make it home again.
H. G. Wells's The First Men in the Moon is one of the founding texts of space-travel fiction, combining scientific speculation with a sly satire of ambition, greed, and colonial hubris. Thrilling, strange, and unexpectedly funny, it set the template for a century of stories about first contact.
- One of literature's first true space-travel adventures
- A vivid, alien lunar civilization decades ahead of its time
- A cornerstone of science fiction, alongside Verne and Wells's own War of the Worlds
Climb aboard the sphere — humanity's first trip to another world begins here.
