# The First Men in the Moon

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- Book: [The First Men in the Moon](https://www.bookquiver.com/hg-wells/the-first-men-in-the-moon) ([The First Men in the Moon.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/hg-wells/the-first-men-in-the-moon.md))
- Authors: [H.G. Wells](https://www.bookquiver.com/hg-wells)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4144-108-5
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2005-03-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a stunned Bedford the invention makes possible one of the oldest dreams of humanity: a journey to the moon. With Bedford motivated by money, and Cavor by the desire for knowledge, the two embark on the expedition. But neither are prepared for what they find - a world of freezing nights, boiling days and sinister alien life, on which they may be trapped forever.