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