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The First Men in the Moon
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Series: Oxford World's Classics
Science FictionClassic Fiction
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ISBN10: 0198705042
ISBN13: 9780198705048
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 12 2017
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780198705048
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 12 2017
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
At the village of Lympne, on the south coast of England, the most uneventful place in the world the failed playwright Mr. Bedford meets the brilliant inventor Mr. Cavor, and together they invade the moon. Dreaming respectively of scientific renown and of mineral wealth, they fashion a sphere from the gravity-defying substance Cavorite and go where no human has gone before. They expect a dead world, but instead they find lunar plants that grow in a single day, giant moon-calves and the ant-like Selenites, the super-adapted inhabitants of the Moon's utopian society. The First Men in the Moon is both an inspired and imaginative fantasy of space travel and alien life, and a satire of turn-of-the-century Britain and of utopian dreams of a wholly ordered and rational society.
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