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The First Men In The Moon

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Published exactly 100 years ago, this is one of Wells's greatest novels, and the only one of his scientific romances to embrace space travel.Thanks to the discovery of an anti-gravity metal, Cavorite, two Victorian Englishmen travel to the Moon, where they encounter the extraordinary underground world of the Selenites, insect-like aliens living in a rigidly organised hive society.

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Gollancz
1857987462 / 9781857987461
Paperback
823.912
08/02/2001
United Kingdom
English
Science fiction
xii, 196p.
20 cm
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Originally published: London: Newnes, 1901.
No.38 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written * 'Well's scientific romances were ... works of art with unique relevance for out times' Arthur C. Clarke * 'The founding father and presiding genius of UK science fiction' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction * 'The Prospero of all the brave new worlds of the mind, and the Shakespeare of science fiction' Brian W. Aldiss.
No.38 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written * 'Well's scientific romances were ... works of art with unique relevance for out times' Arthur C. Clarke * 'The founding father and presiding genius of UK science fiction' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction * 'The Prospero of all the brave new worlds of the mind, and the Shakespeare of science fiction' Brian W. Aldiss. FLC Classic science fiction