When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to Kent to write a play, he encounters Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist who has invented a material that counteracts gravity. This discovery enables the two men to set off on a fantastic journey to the Moon. But they are not prepared for what they find there - a world of freezing nights, boiling days and danger from a sinister alien lifeform, the selenites, creatures who have developed an intricate hierarchical society beneath the lunar surface.
The First Men in the Moon ignited speculation in nineteenth century society concerning what lies on and beneath the surface of the Moon. By turns amusing, thrilling and stimulating, the novel is a classic of its genre.
This volume also contains another of Wells's fascinating thought-provoking fantasies: A Modern Utopia in which two travellers fall into a space-warp and find themselves upon a Utopian Earth controlled by a single World Government.
- ISBN10 1840227443
- ISBN13 9781840227444
- Publish Date 1 January 2017
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 416
- Language English
- URL http://wordsworth-editions.com/collection/classics/book/title/first-men-in-the-moon-and-a-modern-utopia