The First Men in the Moon
The First Men in the Moon
- ISBN 13:
9780198705048
- ISBN 10:
0198705042
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 01/12/2017
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
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.