Ebook The First Men in the Moon

"The First Men in the Moon" is a scientific romance by the English author H.G. Wells, originally serialized in "The Strand Magazine" from December 1900 to August 1901 and published in hardcover in 1901. The author called it one of his "fantastic stories." The novel tells the story of a journey to the Moon undertaken by the two protagonists: a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford; and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the Moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilization of insect-like creatures the call "Selenites."