H.G Wells: The First Men in the Moon
Fiction - Science Fiction
Published by Penguin Group 2005
Dangers of the unknown
In this narrative, Mr Bedford explains the discoveries he and the mad scientist Dr Cavor make, as they journey through space. Bound for the moon in a flying spherical contraption, the two newly acquainted men set out to uncover the mysteries of space, and what they find is nothing short of absurd and ridiculous. They encounter extraordinary moon beings, who have inhabited the moon for what seems like quite some time, and wild plants that grow on the surface of the moon during daytime and crinkle up, dying slowly in the night. Even though disaster befalls one of the men, the story continues until we have been safely returned back to Earth, the planet that is inhabited by humans with ordinary lives!
In the early twentieth century, when this was written, space travel was a thing of the future and little was known about the mysteries of the moon and outer space. Anything that was written, around and before this time, was a mixture of speculation and fiction, the stuff of imagination!
Sounds lovely to read.
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