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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First edition, first printing. Published by George Newnes Ltd., in London, 1901. This is a very good copy. Without the dust wrapper. The blue cloth-bound boards are generally free from notable chips and marks aside from slight scuffing at the corners. There are slight marks to the front panel. The internals are bright and clean throughout but with some very slight foxing. The twelve plates are present and bright. The text blocks are also generally bright and clean. This copy is free from previous owners ink and is, overall, in very good condition. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from December 1900 to August 1901 and published in hardcover in 1901, who called it one of his "fantastic stories". Seller Inventory # 15400
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